I can connect http://www.bbc.co.uk/ & you may be interested in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics Is your problem with streaming audio broadcasts to and are you outside the UK ? If so you may have fallen prey to the BBC's Content Distribution Network which often seems to produce problems they keep re-issuing advice such as: *''Why am I having problems listening to BBC radio outside the UK, such as experiencing poor sound quality or the station is not working?25 May 2011 20:28'' [http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/outside_the_uk/radio_problems_international/ <-- this ]