I’ve tried 4 different configs from this one particular provider
-- UDP port 1198 with AES-128-CBC+SHA1, using the server name to connect.
-- UDP port 1198 with AES-128-CBC+SHA1, using the server name to connect.
-- UDP port 1197 with AES-256-CBC+SHA256, using the server name to connect.
-- TCP port 502 with AES-128-CBC+SHA1, using the server name to connect.
I couldn’t get any to work with streaming. I got a few of the configurations to work with YouTube but streaming channels wouldn’t even load.
Gotta be honest I don’t know what all that text means but I finally just bought an IP-blocking VPN. I found that IP-blocking is the only way to successfully connect AND STAY CONNECTED to streaming services/websites. I also found that all of them that work are not free.
I’m a bargain hunter (severe) so after a lot of searching I found cyber ghost which was the best deal (was on sale, and a multi-year bundle) and you can connect to any city in the world, and it has ones “optimized” for specific streaming services, but I’ve found they don’t actually matter as long as you’re in the right country.
Wondering if this isn’t the kind of answer you’re looking for but oh well
The encryption type has nothing to do with it. Your traffic is decrypted (WRT the VPN) before it gets to the site. The websites are likely blocking known VPN IPs because it’s against their TOS to use a VPN.
I have a vpn and find that it really slows my connection down. When I’m streaming movies and tv series on Kodi, I have a Real Debrid subscription where I no longer need a vpn and can stream any movie or tv series without worry and with no buffering
Just to let you know that I’m a 72 y/o geezer who is not at all tech savvy. I first started with Kodi years ago using those cheap little Chinese android boxes, then Firestick Max and now Nvidia shield. Kodi works great on all of them. Just google “Kodi for Firestick” and scroll down to TroyPoint, he has excellent, easy to follow step-by-step instructions with excellent screenshots.
I need to go the Kodi route. Can you point to what you used to set this up? If I remember correctly, I need a firestick. I’ve got an old stick I bought about 4 years ago and stopped using cause the Amazon GUI sucked. Hopefully, I can use that.
Likely not. You might find one that works for a bit, until it’s detected and banned. You could roll your own, but if it’s in a data center it’s likely to be banned eventually. Again, it’s likely against the sites’ terms of service to access their service via a VPN, so you can’t access them via a VPN without this risk.
so here is the problem. We have a DirectTV subscription account which we use use at home. When I am traveling, I cannot access the service. I think maybe because I am not at the location it normally streams from, it is blocking me.
Well when I came onto this community originally quite a few months ago, it was because I was trying every single free VPN I could find that didn’t look too sketchy and none of them would hold up to streaming for more than at most 30 minutes, and once an IP stopped working with a streaming service once it never worked again. When I posted on here I was given the advice to get an IP-blocking VPN, because it looks like not all VPNs block IP, they just use a different one than yours, sometimes at a location you can choose. Cyber ghost completely blocks IP from the streaming services and it lets me choose locations. I’ve given all the advice I can. Good luck.
The resolution would be to setup a VPN server at the “Home Network” and connect to that when remote. Then route the remote traffic through your home VPN and then out to the internet. Many routers can do this nowadays, or you can use a raspberry pi or other available computer to do it.
honestly man, I don’t know what you mean by IP blocking. All VPNs block your original IP but they can’t block the end IP they come from. The end server has to resolve to a specific IP.
