Problems looking at some American websites

[vidareve]

I have a BT Broadband wireless internet connection, connected via my BT phone line and a router.

Sometimes I need to look at some websites in for example USA that are restricted for American users. I'm an affiliate marketer, marketing products for Americans in US. Because these products are for Americans in the US only, I know that my IP address is checked nto see if I'm allowed to watch the American only URL.

I searched on the internet to see how I could modify this and found that I could modify my Firefox networks settings from a 'No Proxy' to a defined proxy with an IP address and port #.

After I made this modification I couldn't see anything on internet anymore and got this message all the time: 

The online users' count exceeds the license's permission. You need to purchase or upgrade your license.

So I called the BT Broadband helpdesk, but they said they were my ISP only, not my Network provider, and they couldn't help me.

Anybody understand what my problem is?

• Is the IP address or port I gave in faulty?
• Are there any providers to solve this problem here in the UK?
• I know from others on the internet that using Proxies is a normal way to make your IP address anonymous, so you can watch restrticted websites overseas. Anybody knows how to fix this?
• Do you need to pay any upgrades to BT to get this? The support people I talked to didn't know about this.

Thank you for your help.

vidareve

[spank]

Hi there,

Using proxies effectivelly changes the IP you connect to a website with, not only is it very unsecure it can be frowned upon, especially if you are using it to spoof an IP.

The proxy you are using isn't working as it should, from the error it seems the owner hasn't paid for a full licence or his allowed connection limit is maxed out.  Really all you can do is try another proxy.

Do a search in google for free proxies and try a load of them, there are plenty available but not all work and some as I said can be unsecure and I wouldn't be logging into any secure sites over them if I were you.

Thanks