Spain Money Saving Tips and Offers

HideIpVPN is a VPN provider, offering low cost UK and US VPN accounts.  It costs only $5.99 per month for access to a UK VPN, which is one of the cheapest VPN services around.

For those of us living in Spain, and indeed anywhere outside the UK, it is not possible to use services such as BBC iplayer and ITV Player, because a UK IP address is needed.  There are free proxy services available but I have never found a decent one.  They all seem to be very slow, and for things like the Iplayer, they just can't cope.  I have wasted days trying to get a decent free proxy, without success.  It's much better to make a small investment in getting a VPN in my opinion.

I recently started looking at paid for VPN services, and was recommended HideIpVPN by a friend of mine.  I took up their offer of a free 1 hour trial (later extended to 3 days when I asked for extra time).  It was really easy to setup, using the step by step guide on their website.

Within a few minutes, I was up and running.  I went straight to whatismyipaddress.com and hey presto, I now had a UK IP address.  I then went to BBC Iplayer and had no problems watching it.  The connection was very fast and it streamed very smoothly.  In fact I found that overall, web browsing is quicker with the VPN than without it, which is an extra advantage.

A HideIPVPN VPN also allows access to the following services amongst others: Hulu, Pandora, ABC, NBC, ITV etc.

Other advantages of using a VPN include extra security and privacy; hides your real IP address; access to geographically restricted UK/US sites.

A UK VPN with HideIPVPN costs $5.99 per month and is paid on a recurring basis using either PayPal or Google checkout. You can cancel anytime.  There's no minimum contract period.

Now I just need to work out how to use a VPN with my PS3 so I can watch iplayer on there as well!