AOL Blocking BBC Iplayer
Came a cross this when my elderly father was telling that he couldn't access BBC I-Player using his AOL browser. I didn't think that was right and tried for myself on his machine.
Sure enough, when I tried to start streaming using his AOL homepage a message popped up saying it couldn't load.
I treid again using Chrome on his machine - and hey presto got access with no problem. However, then having closed down Chrome, when I tried to re-open it (Chrome) it wouldn't load at all.
Is there something within AOL's software that doesn't want you to access BBC streaming services? I can't find anything within the settings on the computer that I could change to permit access to BBC I-player via AOL, or to allow unfettered access to Chrome.
I know the obvious solution is to get rid of AOL as the ISP, but as my father us used to AOL I don't really want to do that, even though just fiddling with it yesterday I can see it is hardly ideal.