Hulu may carry lots of up-to-date US programming, but if you’re sitting at a computer outside the States, you’re locked out of the fun. The quick, straightforward video above details how to access Hulu videos from anywhere using previously mentioned Hotspot Shield to create a quick proxy that makes Hulu think you’re browsing from the US. The video focuses on Hulu, but the method should work for pretty much any US-only site.
Sikosis
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9:34 AMBeen there done that … and it doesn’t work. It’s too slow for video streaming.
liam
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 11:41 AMI’ve tried it and it works fine for me. Also works for pandora
willhem busch
Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 1:51 AMAgree, started out ok then got slower and slower, now unwatchable !
dan
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:48 AMhotspotshield has a bandwidth limit.. i think it was just lowered to something like 10gb a month.
works great for me and has for awhile but ive noticed its a lot slower during the day
Sophy
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 3:38 AMSince the “update” of HOTSPOT SHIELD, the server is now located in London… so I can´t watch any US shows in HULU.com .
Can anyone please write another soft recommendation
Thanks!
JC
Friday, October 10, 2008 at 1:08 PMWhat can Linux / Ubuntu users use?
dfgh
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 8:38 AMIt still works for me.
Btw the bandwith limit is 3GB/month
Tom
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 7:08 AMCheck out http://alwaysvpn.com/ . It’s another free ad supported vpn provider.
phil
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 9:38 AMhttp://3click.tv works in Australia- and the rest of the world- more shows (complete seasons!) no ads, better stream quality- ROCKS!
Andreas
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 4:17 AMhttp://alwaysvpn.com is not free but pre-charges users for certain bandwidth packages..
Devin Lamb
Friday, May 8, 2009 at 12:36 PMAgree with Phil: 3click.TV hands down- they are streaming to iPhones now and loading tons of new shows.
I just wish I could come up with a set top box/Media center solution to use in conjunction with 3click. Their streams are in MP4- anyone anyone know of something that would play this? Wireless preferably…
steve
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 7:07 PMhotspot shield recently stopped working for me with hulu, looks like hulu can detect it now :( anyone knows other free options? i tried a free trial on monkeyvpn.com and it worked fine, could even stream the few HD streams on hulu smooth, but not sure i’m ready to plunk down the 10$ monthly, so what do you guys use now?
ar
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:46 PMsame thing , hot spot shield still working on thedailyshow.com but not on hulu since 2weeks
BA
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 8:47 AMWhat can Linux / Ubuntu users use?
Marty
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 12:35 PMIf you’re using linux.. you have better things to do than watch Hulu..
So is hotspotshield out of the question now?
Johnny Woo
Thursday, June 11, 2009 at 3:33 PMNo longer works on Hulu. You’ll get a message saying that you are trying to watch Hulu using an anonymous proxy tool.
aristideau
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 11:04 PMForget all that proxy stuff and paid services, just go to justin.tv for all you streaming goodness
Yes
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 3:52 AMAhaa! Hulu does not spot hotspotshield IF you use it on mac!
Kur
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 6:02 PMI need to be in america to watch the instructional video to learn how to watch videos outside of america. FML
swift3vic
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 6:33 PMThis article has been here a while – anyone have success with this these days? I can get around the IP block by:
-using an SSH tunnel to a VPS
-using two types of VPN through strongVPN.com
BUT I just can’t get the bandwidth to watch Hulu reliably.
Does the ISP that you use make a difference? I’m with TPG
Aaron
Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 2:55 PMUse ninjavideo.net its workd
shlomo
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 1:21 AMditto, Ahaa! Hulu does not spot hotspotshield IF you use it on mac
Worgasm
Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 4:36 PMThank You… Thank you so much…
Mitman
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 4:36 PMThanks for this man. Works perfectly!
Phil
Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 3:57 AMDoes it work for other u.s only websites? like oxygen.com?