Ever tried to watch something online or access a site and received a "sorry not obtainable in your nation" type message. It can be exceedingly frustrating and happens constantly to many of us. In fact, there are 1000s of sites which block access based in your location, sadly they are among the largest and best around the web. Take for example the US, there is lots of excellent media sites like Hulu, Pandora, HBO, NBC and Netflix to name but a few. Each of them are not accessible in the event that you happen to connect from outside the US, while you might get routed to an inferior model of Netflix. The websites all look up your IP address before enabling access, when you work out your exact location and connect. It is frustrating particularly for people travelling or living abroad - abruptly you only can not get your favourite sites. Luckily is an easy alternative, simply hide your real IP address. By using something called a VPN server based in the US it is possible to get all the US only websites readily. It is a quick video which shows how you can use this method - there are a lot of others available although it uses the best US VPN.

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