Get an IP address from The UK - Change your IP address with a proxy or VPN

A British IP address is one of the most popular IP addresses in the world.  Not only is British Internet a lot less restricted than many countries around the world, in The UK, there is also access to a lot of cool site that are either blocked by local authorities or the sites themselves block foreign IP addresses from accessing them.  By using an IP address from the UK, you can lift the restrictions of your own country, and bypass restrictions of British sites.One of the most popular sites for streaming TV online is the BBC iPlayer. Though there are other sites like it, BBC One, Channel 4, Demand 5, ITV, and others, BBC iPlayer remains the star of the shows.  They have announced that they will begin to provide service to parts of Europe, but this has yet to start, and they haven't announced under what conditions, and to which countries.  For the time being, its still impossible to watch BBC iPlayer without an IP address from The UK.Lifting the restrictions of your own country can be part of the attraction to a British IP.  For example, Internet users in Iran, Pakistan, and many other middle eastern countries are unable to sign up for Paypal, a popular way to shop and make money transactions online.  Users who want to Freelance on the Internet are out of luck, unless they can sign up with a British IP address.  The same goes for British people who travel. Though their passport says their British, their IP may say that they're Chinese, and accessing British sites from China is many times, just plain impossible.Depending on where you are, you may choose to use a proxy or a VPN to change your IP address. Proxies, for the most part, are used to Internet browsing only.  This would include streaming video from YouTube, logging into your Facebook account, and stuff like that.  If you want to stream sports live from UK sites, call using Skype, chat through MSN or Gmail, run apps on your iPhone, or different kind of software that connect to the Internet with an IP address from the UK, you've got to get a VPN.Virtual private networks create a tunnel from your computer or phone to computer servers in The UK, which mean not only is you're whole device transformed into a British IP phone/computer, its also protect from tracking by local authorities and the sites that you visit.