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Re:In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being ... by dspillett on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:21AM (#2456085)
If they are not using a transparent proxy to pick up the HTTP traffic then using OpenDNS or Google's public DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) will help.

If they are going as far as inspecting http traffic (and selectively editing/blocking some of it) with a transparently proxy rather than redirecting selected domains via DNS poisoning then your only way around this is some sort of VPN which of course requires a host elsewhere for the VPN server to run on (unless you use something like Tor, but that is very slow and may cause the same "many people from a small set of IP addresses" problem itself anyway due to the relatively limited number of exit nodes).

Re:In the UK? Strange browser behaviour? You might be being ... by barrkel on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:47AM (#2456131)
Customer requests are redirected by ISPs to the transparent proxy on an IP:port basis. DNS is not poisoned; using a different DNS will not affect how it works.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf

I personally use a cheap VPS located in the US to get around IP geolocation (e.g. occasional Youtube videos, Hulu etc.), and it can also circumvent this, though I have never had cause to - my Be Pro account does not block filesonic.com, for example.