Hotspot Shield allows you to watch US Programs restricted by country locations

iceman · February 11, 2009, 05:32:20 AM

For those people living outside of the US, I have found a program which will allow you to watch shows off of Hulu and CBS.com. It is called Hotspot Shield and is free.

It hides your ip address so that you are not subject to region and country restrictions, theirfore allowing you to watch video content that would otherwise be restricted for those outside of the US. I have used it and works well.

It can be found at WWW.hotspotshield.com

Billybob you should find this program very useful as will others outside of the US.

Let me know what you think

John

billybob476 · February 11, 2009, 05:45:44 AM

I've been using it for a little while now. Not sure if it's the machine I'm running it on, but the connection tends to very very flaky. I'll have to try it on a machine hard wired to my router. Might be the wireless that's wreaking havoc with it.

Rico · February 11, 2009, 06:01:23 AM

Spoofing your IP address has been around for a long time. It works by rerouting your signal, which tends to slow down your connection.

iceman · February 11, 2009, 06:58:39 AM

I havent found a slow connection speed using my machine, perhaps I am lucky

billybob476 · February 11, 2009, 07:01:57 AM

I'll have to try it on a seperate machine. The wireless to my "tv" computer is sketchy.

Rico · February 11, 2009, 08:09:33 AM

I pretty much avoid wireless. I need my speed!

billybob476 · February 11, 2009, 08:34:03 AM

I'd love to, unfortunately I'm renting and I can't drill through the wall to run cat5 out to the tv! :)

Sadly I really do enjoy running cable and such and finding creative ways to hide it. This place has baseboards and carpet so it'd be very easy.

Dangelus · February 11, 2009, 10:43:42 AM

I've tried hotspot sheild in the past. Last time I tried it a lot of the streaming sites had figured out what was going on and started to block the hotspot shield ip addresses so it didn't work for me. Perhaps they have gotten around this again.

If I remember correctly there isn't much of a speed issue with this as it just uses the spoof address to initially fool the website then it streams to video through your normal ip address.

iceman · February 11, 2009, 12:09:27 PM

I have only had a problem on weekends, when everybody else is surfing otherwise I havent really had a problem, and when I am not on those video sites I disconnect it