HOW TO: Get Hulu Outside the US
I’m a sucker for great TV. However I don’t have time to watch TV shows when they are being shown live. Also, I enjoy quite a it of American Tv such as House, Lost etc. So what happens when I want to watch some good quailty (therfore not YouTube) and not wait ages for it download (aka. not Bittorrent) TV?
I go to Hulu.
But there is one problem, it only works in the US. Luckily there is a way to overcome this, it is by no means perfect but it sure does work. You could go and use a prxy website which is in the US but most of them disable Java, Flash etc for bandwidth. So you are only really left with one option aprt from The Pirate Bay. A VPN; this is a virtual private network - which is a secure line to the internet. The obvious problem we know have is that if you want a decent VPN you have to pay for it.
Well, the next best thing is no having to pay for it, and getting an okay result. For this I use HotSpot
Sheild. It is a little app for both Window and Mac OS X (sorry Linux community) that for free allows you to connect to a VPN server in the US. It works fairly well and all that you have to content with is a small banner ad at the top of the page, and the default setting of it launching Safari to their website every time you start up your machine.
Obviously it isn’t going to be amazingly fast and it may take a fair amount of time for the video to buffer, but isn’t it worth it, considering you’ll get to watch the latest episode of Heroes?
Of course, you are not just limited to Hulu. It can be used for Pandora, CBS video - pretty much every US website that requires you to live in the US.
TELL ME HOW IT WORKS OUT FOR YOU?
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you’re ignoring a major limitation of hotspot shield: they only allow a certain amount of traffic every month. if you just download their app and watch a couple episodes, you’ll be out in the cold sooner than you think. perhaps paying for it would help but then again there are a million open proxy servers out there.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm