The thing is is says on the BBC iPlayer site:
BBC iPlayer for iPhone and iPod touch is currently in a beta phase. To access the site, ensure that you have a wireless internet connection for your iPhone or iPod touch, then go to BBC iPlayer homepage. You can Click to Play (stream) any of the programmes available, but you cannot download at present. Please note that you will need to keep the wireless connection while playing a programme. If you get told to download Flash, try deleting your cookies. Further help Specific information for mobile phones and devices can be found in the Help section when you visit BBC iPlayer on a compatible mobile device. The Beta phase may explain it! HOWEVER - GOOD NEWS!! Today, without changing my iPhone, router, Wifi settings or Internet provider - IT'S WORKING! Just like that :-) As long as it stays that way I'll be pleased. Thanks one and all for your thoughts. Stephen On 9 Nov 2008, at 22:54, Edmund Craske wrote: > > Ahh, good point :) Well iPlayer probably doesn't know that! And for > some > reason your connection looks like 3G/GPRS to it. Have you tried it > on other > wifi connections? > > Ed > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> An iPod touch only has Wifi - no 3G or anything else like that. >> >> Stephen >> >> On 9 Nov 2008, at 12:49, Edmund Craske wrote: >> >>> I'm pretty sure it's saying that because it thinks you're accessing >>> it over >>> GPRS/3G rather than wifi. Are you sure that that's not the case? >>> What ISP >>> are you using, it probably does do it based upon the IP address that >>> you're >>> connecting from. >>> >>> Ed >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> I've realised that it's stranger than I'd thought. I'd been >>>> thinking >>>> that their message meant 'broadband connection' but actually the >>>> BBC >>>> message says "Sorry, programmes can only be accessed over a wifi >>>> connection." Given that I'm accessing it from an iPod which doesn't >>>> have an Ethernet connector and, to my scanty knowledge, can't >>>> access >>>> the Internet via the dock connector, how on earth do the BBC think >>>> that I'm using my iPod to access their site in the first place??!! >>>> >>>> Stephen >> >> "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and >> I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein >> >> >>> > > > > > Don't dream it, be it. - Frank N. Furter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
