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USA VPN for watching CBS in UK
Hello,
Try to find a solution for a work colleague, he has tried elastichosts.com but their IP range did not allow CBS to be streamed over VPN to UK.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a USA VPS provider, 128mb should be sufficient that will allow CBS to be streamed over VPN.
Many thanks
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buyvm maybe?
I personaly have used Jolly Works and IPXcore, and they were great
He could also just use unblock-us.com
BuyVM don't appear to have any stock at the moment.
Hostigation works great for me.
Unfortunately no stock at Hostigation either
Take a look at rackspace US, or simply get a uk2/vps.net vps
or even this? http://hostizzle.com/download/
Cheap and unmetered.. works great with SSH tunnelling with putty for Hulu so should work with CBS
http://vpscheap.net/linux.aspx
Nah, buyvm's IP's are recognized as canadian IP's. So it's basically useless for US content.
You can request a US IP address I believe.
http://wiki.frantech.ca/index.php/US_VPN#US_VPN
Pwned!
Hi,
I'm using a vps from NQHost (Dallas) for Hulu (L2TP VPN) and it's fine ,so i think it should be ok for cbs too.
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/nqhost-15quarter-128mb-xen-vps-in-dallas/
Many thanks for all your suggestions, I will certainly try some of those myself. My friend has tried unblock-us.com as suggested by @thharris and the trial is working very well for him.
No. When I asked they denied my request.
I don't want to route my traffic through a big (public) VPN and would like to have a dedicated IP. So for me it is pretty useless.
I guess it could be ok to watch CBS :-) But maybe you could tell us about YOUR question.
@onepound
its works ok just annoying its only for the few sites. Its nice to have control
Another thing that I found works well is setting up a squid proxy, and then using a pac file so that it automatically uses the proxy only for those sites he needs.
I hate connecting and disconnecting from vpn's so that's another way around it.
Ermm...
Is just to watch some videos, not for doing ultra personal stuff ¬_¬
But whatever...
Letterman
https://vpnhq.com/ are doing free beta right now, but cough owned by Rus Foster.
Will you prefer Dallas,USA ?
Thanks for all your suggestions guys, my friend is still using the unblock-us and seems quite happy with it at the moment.
I recently tested one of Russel Fosters new ventures techievps.com in the USA (will use as a DNS server probably) but tested as a VPN, This did allow CBS to stream if that helps anyone else looking for the same thing.
That said, shocking performance at moment from their USA Node, so would not exactly recommend them.
CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency : 2400.108 MHz
Total amount of ram : 248 MB
Total amount of swap : 511 MB
System uptime : 1 day, 14:07,
Download speed : (5.00MB/s)
I/O speed : 22.2MB/s
Theres currently a RAID resync going on which should be complete in a few hours which is causing I/O slowdown
Doing that is... V]ERY dangerous imho (i.e. downloading an script and sending it to execute without knowing what contains... and yes, you don't know what contains until is downloaded)
Sorry about that Russ, saw the Network issues on the website just after posting, I will update this thread with the new speed after the disk finishes rebuilding. Showing 5.7MB/s at moment, so guess must still be rebuilding.
Agreed not a good example, people should always express caution when executing scripts downloaded from the internet.
In this instance though I am aware of the script and is being executed on a dev box.
I will refrain from posting a similar line in future ;-)
I am using VPSNext from last 4 months and the experience with this company is good so far. It is offering me managed service with with bandwidth of 1000gb and RAM around is 768mb. The service works good for me so far and it has powered with various features. You can google around for other provider as well as there are many who are giving the said services in the industry. A part from that basically i am a user of vpn and also have some good knowledge to share with this community. I think you can try VPN as well as it can also allow you to use all such sites which are not accessible geographically and are being restricted within one country premises.
@allerriley: is that vpsnext.com? it redirects to jumpline.com now. For $30 a month i'd expect great service too.