i wouldnt worry about it too much there are a lot of people reporting the same problem basically they ban whole ranges of ip addresses that originate from outside the uk the problem being that some uk isps route their internet traffic via overseas providers and these get caught up in the block.
there will be technicians working now to weed out these ip adresses wrongly it will be something that was expected to happen and probably the reason the stream has being set up 30 hours before its due to go live.


incidentally to the people wrongly geo blocked who is your internet provider??

VirginMedia

But atm, It doesnt say i'm geoblocked and is working atm

cool they will figure it out before launch it shows they are working on it if you were blocked but arent now.

im wondering if they are/were all virgin subscribers that were blocked.

Virgin Media Inc. is an American-domiciled British provider of television, telephone and broadband internet services to domestic and business customers in the UK, delivered primarily through its fibre-optic cable network, headquartered on paper in New York City[1] with operations based in Hook, North Hampshire, UK. The company was formerly known as ntl:Telewest following the merger of NTL Incorporated with Telewest Global, Inc. A further merger with Virgin Mobile's UK arm in 2006 created the first "quadruple-play" media company in the United Kingdom, bringing together television, Internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.



If what your saying is correct, could this be why it wasnt working? they might of thought I was in the US?

You can check your IP location at http://www.speedtest.net by looking at where it says your IP is on the map. :spin:

I am in Ireland and Channel 4 wouldn't even let me view the sign up form, never mind get a free pass.

yep could well be it sounds likely and i bet everybody that has/had the geo problem are using the same internet providers or maybe one of 2 providers.
god im a saddo im dying to know now :)

Thats just the different places where they test your speed from. Mine comes up with 4


My provider is based in the US


and its damn slow at that

my location says essex and i live in derbyshire about 150 miles away that must be where sky route their traffic from.

Ew.

My IP Address Location: London in ip address flag United Kingdom
ISP of my IP: Virgin Media

Which is 101 miles away lol

:joker:

is it normal to be on the computer talking about ip address locations at 4am god you two are so geeky :hugesmile::hugesmile::hugesmile::hugesmile:

:joker:

I'm on the computer 80 percent of the time, and I know around about nothing about them, lol