Originally I was looking for a reliable server to watch irish sports on the RTE player. I then found overplay. It's got servers to many countries around the world including US,UK,IRE,CH,AUS,NZ. It costs $10 a month

I tried the RTE player, BBC iplayer, Zattoo and full episodes on the fox website.

I had trouble playing them on the internet explorer but in Chrome they all work without problem. There is a choice of servers and I always found a reliable one.
Watching RTE yesterday I did need to change servers after around 15 min but that's quickly done.

I realise this sounds like a spam but I hope I've got enough posts to have some credibility

I'm just posting it cause it was doing my head in trying to find reliable irish and UK servers. This seems to be the answer and in my opinion well worth the 7-8 fr/month

Just a big-up to overplay.net from me too. I've been road testing their service for the last two weeks and am very impressed. Setting it up is childsplay, especially on the iPad where you simply download a VPN config file which does all the hard work for you.