*blocked in America. VPN to the rescue

Sorry, is a vpn issue for me.

If you install a vpn you can watch the first season on Netflix in the UK. And then you can go to channel 4 website sign up there and watch the second, thats how I watched it. You need to watch it!!!

Changed embed. How about now? My vpn can't choose Australia.

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oops i mean still *blocked

my vpn chose a different countries ip address

I got Torguard after watching this video.

There is an index of VPNs that get interviewed by a bittorrent blog or something like that. In the interview they ask them what kind of measures they take for security purposes etc etc.

Torguard doesn't keep ANY logs. Vypr (the service this guy uses) keeps logs for a while which to me seems to defeat the purpose of having a VPN.

After much research, I chose Private Internet Access. They never log anything so they can't be compelled to provide browsing/download histories. Check out: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-one-small-american-vpn-company-is-trying-to-stand-up-for-privacy/

Also, I have noticed that file locker services are throttled big time on Verizon Fios, but through a VPN they are super fast. There is probably 5-10% overhead for using a VPN, but it's still way better than a non-VPN connection.

I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!

My VPN does increase my ability to download stuff a bit but it's not amazing. I just think Verizon Fios is shit sometimes. Also I know they've been totally throttling Netflix, those bastards.

What VPNs do other people use on here, any I should consider?

Had this same problem. All fixed using a VPN. If you ask me, the ISP's are shooting themselves in the foot because they can't decipher VPN traffic at all and they are forcing us to use them more and more.

People miss the point with net neutrality.

The internet is a packet delivery system.
You are literally paying your ISP for a packets-per-second delivery rate across their network.

That literally means, that the ISP is obligated to make an honest best effort to route your packets at the rate you subscribed to.

Any action to deliberately throttle your packets down to below your subscribed rate, is deliberately not providing a paid for service - i.e. fraud/stealing/whatever.

Net neutrality is the concept that they deliver all packets without prejudice.

That they don't inspect your packets, and decide to treat them differently based on their content.

Kind of how the postal service charges the same to send a letter from point A to B, regardless of what you wrote in that letter.
The postal service doesn't say things like :
"This letter describes a picture. We only allow 3 'letters describing a picture' per month, and you already sent 3, so this one will have to wait.".



So for example, comcast v netflix.

Reports such as this build a case for deliberate throttling : http://www.itworld.com/consumerization-it/416871/get-around-netflix-throttling-vpn

We know comcast wanted netflix to pay for network integration/improvement.
One way to do that is by twisting their arm : deliberately throttle netflix traffic to netflix customers, until netflix pays up (and along the way, selectively not deliver paid for bandwidth to comcast customers)

That would be singling out netflix packets - a non-neutral action.

(blah blah, I changed ISPs because my own experience suggested netflix throttling.)

-scheherazade

Just figured it out. My vpn was going through Canada. So Canadians were blocked from seeing it. Anyway that had me quite confused. All is right with the world again.

Lullaby_lune is my wife, so we occasionally log in on the same computer. While we were in China together we used VPNs to access videos that might have otherwise been caught by the great firewall. Would either of these things have anything to do with her having issues? I've never had problems with embeds.

@EvilDeathBee

This is so awesome! Thank you! We live in Japan and don't want to have to pay for a VPN just to get NetFlix and Hulu working (there's no Japanese version of NetFlix and the Hulu one has an extremely limited selection of movies/shows, though they keep adding more every week). This did the trick for us!

@gwiz665

That's weird, it worked just fine for me. Usually I get re-directed to the Japanese Hulu site, but I was able to sign up for the American one no problem after downloading the plug-in.

*blocked in Canada. VPNs are your friends.