ABC started their streaming service on their website today. Users from the USA are able to watch episodes of Lost, Desperate Houswives, Alias and others right from the website. Unfortunatly they check your IPs origin and decline access if the whois turns out to be from outside the USA. But as always, there is a way around this restriction.
This is slighty complex but you should get used to the procedure. All you need is a http proxy that is hosted inside the USA and does not spill your IP address. To achieve this you need a application that checks proxy servers for those variables. I recommend Charon for this task but you could use other tools as well.
Download Charon from the website mentioned, you don´t need to install it at all, just extract the contents to a directory of your choice.
Fire it up, you have no proxy list yet so you could use google to find some lists or let charon do that for you. Simply select Check Proxies and then Scan Search Engines for new Proxies. Charon will find some proxies that are then displayed in the table. Those are unverified, now select Check Proxies and Check Anonymity of all Proxies. This might take some time. If you only recieve bad and timeouts you have to change one option in charon.
Select Connect Options and chose Use External Judge(s).
Let it test the proxies. If you have enough good ones or a finished test sort the proxies by the Country tab. Only USA proxies are working so we need one of those. The Anonymity tab should state YES. If both are correct right click the line and select Copy to clipboard and Copy selected IP:Port.
Open your browser and paste the proxy address into its proxy settings. For firefox you select Tools >> Options >> Connection Settings >> Manual Proxy Configuration and add the proxy and port there. Close the options and visit the abc streaming site. If you see a Launch button you are ready to enjoy the tv shows. If not try another proxy from the list.
I checked the service with this proxy and it worked flawlessly: 192.104.67.250 port:8080
Enjoy the shows.
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I think you’ll have to change your time zone to the US time zone.
Hope it helps :)
@ Joan of course, I changed time zone as I always did before, but it does not work any longer this way
hey guys,
i have the same problem as zoe, alex and alexa. i just wanted to watch a couple of episodes today. wouldn’t work for me. it keep loading for what seemed forever. but it didn’t anything else. that’s just annoying me.
can anyone please help us?
i have change my proxy and now i am getting:
empisodes are temporarily unavailable. please try another time.
some one please help
Hi,
I’m having the same problem. Hotspot used to work fine for ABC. However, now, after the episode has loaded, I get the error message (episodes are temporarily unavailable…”).
Can anybody help?
Hi @ all Hotspot-Users,
I think the HotspotShield Problem is IP related, when you turn the program off, you are connected with your own IP again. And I can just guess that ABC made their flash-IP-Check-Script smarter, so it checks your IPs during the shows as well. Unfortunately I don’t know how to fix this, it’s annoying, but a payed VPN could be a solution..If anyone comes up with a solution, that would be great.
I’m in Qatar and I can’t make it work. Can anyone help? Thanks.
I downloaded Charon and it didnt work and now I cant even get Charon to delete. I am trying to watch tv shows from the UK by using a proxy server but they do not appear to be working even though when I check my IP it shows the United States. Any suggestions??
I am having a problem I think because they are java.
This is how I work around hotspot. First i reboot my pc so i have max power. Then connect hotspot an d open firefox. Go through the stages and get to the loading screen. wait until your tv show starts – and then after 30 seconds then switch off hotspot. If you dont teh show will hang.
OK now when the ads come on connect hotspot again – make sure its on before you click ok to carry on. When ad is finished click ok to carry on and again after 30 seconds or so sitch it off.
if you are getting cant find show blah blah whatever then it could be either you havent changed your time zone or memory (just reboot) abc soaks up your pc memory, unless your machine is super fast.
You can use VPN to watch American TV
Any updates on how to get this working? I having problems with it also.
This is a good idea that I never thought of. However when I click “Use a proxy server for your LAN” and enter a proxy address and port, my internet stops working altogether on IE. All i get for any site is the “This page cannot be displayed” as if I am not connected to the internet.
Do you know what my problem may be?
Is anyone reading this able to get ANYTHING on HotSpot these days???
I HotSPot setting us up for a pay service???
Or will they now claim this was a “free trial?”
As soon as I tried NBC Hotspot stopped working.
I checked details on the Auth Failure and it says that I don’t have permission to access…
I think NBC and probavly ABC have updated their
software.
When I tried to contact Hotspot via their online support, it also hung, could not send
at all.
MACOSX it worked fine on SAfari-
downloaded firefox 3.0 – still no go.
And Yahoo seems to have deleted all of the
answers people could have submitted with
this message on every related page…
“This question has been deleted
There was a problem performing that action, please try again later.”
This kind of thing leads me to think that
Yahoo is getting too big for their britches.
Time has come for someone else to come along and offer a truly uncensored service.
Wahoo? Gotmail?
You can use VPN to watch American TV, ;)
Ya im the same as paddy up there, im from ireland when I click “Use a proxy server for your LAN” and enter a proxy address and port, my internet stops working altogether. All i get for any site is the “This page cannot be displayed” as if I am not connected to the internet.
Anyone know whats wrong?
[...]les dejo este link interesante de ghacks para que lean
Hotspot Shield, which I reviewed a while back, will help with this too. At least, it works with hulu.com from the UK…
Now, what I’d like is a way to use BBC iPlayer in the US
guys can anyone tell me how to watch lest and so on from Europa again? its all messed up!
what we do how to do it please help
Bollocks tried this a few times now, my ip don’t show up on any ip checker sites (say i am in USA) and I still can not get to se a show just a message saying shows only for people living in the us.
i need help with this problem.. i have a mac with the new leopard software and have no idea what to do… can anyone help?
i need help with this problem.. i have a mac with the new leopard software and have no idea what to do… can anyone help?
the IP you gave in you post is very slow!
takes ages to load anything!
im using a connection on 15.3mbps and this is terrible!
Wow I wish I would have known about this during the Olympics. Still it’s great that I can watch tv shows and movies online though.
Hey guys really want to watch the David Blaine event live on abc tonight,anyone know how to watch abc live?? Thanks
Hi…could someone guide me…i downloaded charon and now i’m lost as to what to do. I am outside the US and having difficulty with the rest of the instructions. thanks.
Hi, I did the search with charon but it didn’t give me any proxy lists, I let it run all night and nothing!
I typed proxy list and got some but it still doesn’t work, either I get that I’m not connected to the internet or ABC says I’m outside of the US, anyone can tell me what to do?
BS
join rapidshare forum. some nice team will upload lastest tv show.
In order to see videos on official US sites from abroad you’ll need to use a proxy service.
Easiest way to do it is to google “anonymous proxy” for list of proxy IP addresses.
Choose any address then go to you browser settings ( Something like “Tools>Internet options>Connections>Lan Settings..>and check “Enable proxy” and enter the prioxy ip address you got earlier.
That’s it ;)
Also if you are using iGoogle as a home page, heres great gadget watch ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC shows online to help you to access most major channels prime time shows online on their official sites fast and easy.
Here is what you need to do : On your iGoogle home page click on “Add Stuff” link in upper right corner. It will open gadget central and search for “Watch ABC, CBS, CW, FOX, NBC shows online” to locate that gadget.
Or if you like an easy way, heres direct link to it http://www.down-the-pipe.com/watch-abc-nbc-cbs-fox-cw-tv-shows-online-free-gadget.html .
Enjoy
This way sucks, proxies are slow.
This is the best way..
hotspotshield.com
this hides your ip… lets you watch nbc.com abc.. everything THE BEST
download ultrasurf9.1 and it does it, stop making things complicated when there is an easy solution
MAC OS X USERS!! install hotspot sheild for mac and connect. thats all. it connected with a US ip at my first try. if its not, disconnect and connect again to catch a US ip adress. good luck.
Just go to http://leafpen.com, fill out their dumb survey and then watch all the lost you want!!! Works for me in the UK
thanks for the tip. my other half loves lost so here we go all the bandwidth will go on lost :)
I’m having the same problem. Hotspot used to work fine for ABC. However, now, after the episode has loaded, I get the error message (episodes are temporarily unavailable…”).
Can anybody help?
we should all make our websites for non-us viewers only. “this website is for non-us viewers only, now suck my smelly non-us balls”
does not work for me
Dude…..they block to non-US users because of the commercials. They have to be able to tell their sponsors that so many possible customers watched their adds. It still seems stupid to me, because having lived in 8 coutnries I know that they sell Tide detergent pretty much everywhere, etc….plus there are “amerikans” all over the world who go back home…..but please, it is understandable why a profit making company should want to block. I’m still getting around it though, as well as I can!
hulu detects most proxies now, anyone still having luck finding good proxies? been using the free trial from monkeyvpn.com and it’s fast, anyone know anymore sites with free trials?