Howto watch ABC TV Streams outside the USA

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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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mark says, May 1st, 2006

hehe…why would anyone inside OR outside the US want to watch ABC?

Razman says, May 1st, 2006

Holy!

All I did, was type into google “Free Proxy” and pages and pages of search returns containing free proxies, were returned.
I hit the first search result, and it listed tons of proxies by ip, when they were last tested and country of origin.
I chose a US proxy, quickly enterered it into my Internet Explorer/Firerox Connection settings, and hit http://ipchicken.com it didn’t show my ip, I hit abc’s site next and it worked no problems.

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?
i am looking for a video overlay grabber
is there a way to capture the stream
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roebert says, May 1st, 2006

thx for the howto - good thing to know

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Norman says, May 1st, 2006

Use http://www.whatismyproxy.com/ instead of ipchicken. The chicken didn’t show that I was forced to use a transparent proxy - but whatismyproxy clearly shows that I am. Maybe ABC don’t check the Fowarded-For header, which is great.

Q8 says, May 1st, 2006

is There a mac app also “Charon”

Sander says, May 1st, 2006

Thanks for this excellent guide! Works great!!

JB says, May 2nd, 2006

All this trouble to watch a shitty quality stream?

No, thanks. P2P is the way to go.

Ju says, May 2nd, 2006

For all of those that hate ABC, I bet this would work for Cartoon Network’s friday night fix too…

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me says, May 2nd, 2006

actually a proxy is needed only when initially connecting to abc’s “live streams” page.

you can then deactivite the proxy and watch the shows !

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yee wei says, May 3rd, 2006

OMG………it works !!!!!!!!!! Im from malaysia.This is COOL !!! Good Job
martin !!!

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Martin says, May 3rd, 2006

Yes it´s true. You can deactivate the proxy when viewing the show and you passed the ip check. You could also scan for a proxy that is not that crowded with users

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Pleas help says, May 4th, 2006

Don’t work. After i hit the launch button this message comes in???
Invalid domain
episodes are temporarily unavailable. please try again at another time

so what´s wrong

Martin says, May 4th, 2006

They probably banned the ip of the proxy that I posted. Try scanning for your own and you will find one that is working.

matt says, May 4th, 2006

I’m clicking on Check Proxies and then Scan Search Engines for new Proxies and it will begin a search but no proxies are found. Help!?!?!

Jarzi says, May 5th, 2006

I´m having samekind of trouble´s…
Frist the “Invalid domain” message
And then thish Charon prog ain´t working
What should I do??

Carlos says, May 5th, 2006

Thanks it worked

nonames says, May 6th, 2006

i can get lost couple hours after its aired in usa..
even tho i live in europe..

john says, May 6th, 2006

entered proxy into internet connections ok. i went to go to the abc streams
but it wouldnt let me go to any website at all, what do i do?

Martin says, May 6th, 2006

this proxy is probably not working, try another one.

iti says, May 7th, 2006

it says episodes not available at this moment… ive tried allot of proxies

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demonik says, May 10th, 2006

how do i get this to work on a mac computeer

Martin says, May 12th, 2006

I don´t know if there are proxy checkers for mac out there. You could try and use google to find proxies and test them manually using a site that reveals your ip, like http://www.whatismyproxy.com

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James says, May 17th, 2006

For a Mac just go to System Prefs > Network > ‘your connection e.g. Airport’ > Tick the Web Proxy and enter in the Web Proxy Server and Port from your source.

I looked here and the third one I tried worked a treat. Now to wait until it has aired… http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html

Someone says, May 18th, 2006

You can use the proxy to load the Flash viewer than cancel it for better
performance. The check is made just on the beginning.

Ernest says, May 19th, 2006

Good website is http://www.snoopmyip.com and for proxy stuff, http://www.proxyspot.com

enjoy

Funda_Mental says, May 20th, 2006

I am already behind a proxy in my office and I wanted to access the LOST
show and watch it after work.

If I paste any other IP, the connection to internet goes away. Do you
have any suggestions?

Specs - PC with IE and Mozilla

Funda_Mental says, May 21st, 2006

Hi
This is most helpful.

But I am behind a proxy at my office. The proxy connects to proxy server
and the ABC site checks the IP which is non-US based.
I would like to watch Lost after work hours. Any idea on how to do it then?

If I choose a US based proxy, my net connection goes away as I need the proxy to connect to the net.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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karan says, May 25th, 2006

hi, i clicked on check proxies and then scan search engines for new proxies and i also chose use external judge from the internet options when an error message came up, it shows at the bottom what it’s searching, but i waited for about 10 minutes but no proxies came up?? please help

Karan says, May 25th, 2006

hi again, that problem’s solved now, but i have another 1, you know you wrote ‘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’ that’s what’s happening to me, i’m only recieving bad ones, how do i solve this problem? you said you have to change one option, i don’t get it, please help, thanks

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Martin says, June 10th, 2006

Karan try using external judges and not internal ones, Select Connect Options and chose Use External Judge(s). that´s all.

isabelishhh says, June 13th, 2006

it’s awsome now i will be able to watch lost , desperate housewives and alias

isabelishhh says, June 14th, 2006

can someone help me please!!! the sistem is asking me some info that i dont know what is about you see i’m using a LAN connection so i don’t know if this has something to do with it but is asking a DNS something and a Gateway and SUB soomething else can someone please help me i wreely want to watch this episodes thanks already

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catty says, July 1st, 2006

Use sopcast I view abc channel.

Shawn says, July 17th, 2006

a good website to watch US streams from non-US IPs is http://www.proxy4free.info , you can find live US proxies on the front page.

james madison says, August 2nd, 2006

FoxyProxy firefox extension automatically switches your internet connection to use the proxy when a site is blocked–like ABC–but uses your (FAST) direct connection for everything else. No need to keep switching manually!

http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org

aldana says, September 9th, 2006

el sitio sigue funcionando?
porque yo me registre y eso pero nose como hacer para ver los programas ni a que hora me tengo que conectar si es que los queiro ver en vivo …

gracias

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Christy says, September 26th, 2006

I’ve tried this with several anonymous US addresses, but I get an error message when I try to visit a site. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. I’m using Firefox and I change the IP address and port in the manual configuration box (under connections) to an anonymous address. Can someone tell me if there’s something more that needs to be done in Firefox? I would greatly appreciate any insight, as I’m living overseas and miss my ABC shows!!
Thanks so much.

Malad says, September 28th, 2006

hey, ive also tried everything to try to see these episodes. used all sorts of proxies and it did connect to abc player but then a message shows up: the episodes are temporaly unavaible. So, what can I do to watch it? Is there another way?

Christy says, September 28th, 2006

Yeah, the same thing happened to me once I got a proxy that worked. Maybe they somehow caught on and are blocking all anonymous proxies or something. If anyone can figure out a solution, please post it here!

frustrated says, September 28th, 2006

Same here. Can’t get any proxy to work.

dragoon says, October 1st, 2006

I have the same problem. it seems it is the proxy which does not work (even if it is located in usa).I tried many proxys but I have never managed to see this damned episodes.IT IS HARD TO FIND A GOOD PROXY.

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harleydee says, October 2nd, 2006

i get in to abc with an american proxy and onto the player but it ses no episodes availiable does any one no why?

Christy says, October 2nd, 2006

I think ABC has blocked all anonymous proxies or something. I get into ABC as well with a proxy and to other sites, but the player shows an error message when I try to play one.

Malad says, October 4th, 2006

please, any suggestions as how we should proceed to watch the abc broadcast for non-usa users?

Axl says, October 4th, 2006

Any suggestions anyone? please!

D says, October 4th, 2006

Im having the same problem so I’m guessing that there isnt a way around it as we are all having the same problem.
Looks like abc has stopped it from happening.

draggon says, October 4th, 2006

the firt episode of the third season of lost is this evening. Nobody has a solution ? I can’t miss it…
well I think I’ll have to download it…

draggon says, October 4th, 2006

The fisrt episode of lost is this evening
I can’t miss it. nobody has a solution?
Well i think I’ll have to download it.

Martin says, October 4th, 2006

hm, did you try a working fast us proxy ? I will take a look into this matter

Anonymous... who else? says, October 4th, 2006

Hey guys, how you doin?
Well, now as I’m as anonymous as I want to be, I didn’t make it though to abc.com. Now, I though, there must be a reason, so I went to check that out on MTV’s Overdrive. You know, that’s that weird thing on mtv.com where you can stream a couple of live videos… as if MTV isn’t broadcasting it all day long anyways, but that don’t matter. So: It worked! I’m a desperate Englishman willig to do almost everything to watch LOST tonight, so holla if you got something. In my point of view, ABC has just gone mad and they don’t take anonymous IPs anymore, but anyhoo… I’ll try again, there has to be some way around. Bloody ABC beaurocrats.

Lionslost says, October 5th, 2006

I was not able to pass de abc site i dont know what i´m doing really, only following the instructions, thing is that it says that the connection is taking to long for firefox could it be that i have a router??

steve says, October 5th, 2006

I used this site, http://www.yourprxy.com/

it allowed me to the site, but havin probs with javascript, can anyone else try it, and reply….
tanx

flight815 says, October 5th, 2006

I’m currently in China and I’m having the same problem with the error message on the site. “No episodes are available at this time” Well they better be soon, because I NEED to watch Lost, Damnit!!!

Christy says, October 5th, 2006

Steve, the java script issue with with http://www.yourprxy.com isn’t on your browser - to allow sites accessed through yourprxy.com you have to click “more options” and uncheck the “remove client scripting” box. i was able to access abc’s player though yourprxy, the php10justproxy address (which you can select at the bottom of the page). but, when i tried to select an episode I got the same old “only viewers within the US” error. I even tried pasting the episode URL into yourprxy, but that didn’t work. Somehow even through yourprxy abc is still seeing who we are.

tandy says, October 5th, 2006

propably there is no way, to watch lost etc. even with an anonymous proxy. abc has found some other way to determinate where you from.
does somebody know another workaround?
maybe were doing something wrong, because i got these error messege ‘there are now episodes right now’.
pls help soon!

steven watched lost on abc from uk says, October 5th, 2006

hey guy i stumbled on this 2day and i got a link 2 watch abc on the web i had it for ages and yes guys i watched LOST at 5 am this morning the sound was a bit jumpy 2 start as i would imagine there was a lot watching and no i cant wait till next week for the next episode and also i watched the new programme the 9 that looks brill 2( ps the other boy who was in party off 5 is in that lol) e

steven watched lost on abc from uk says, October 5th, 2006

any 1 wanting the link email my your thoughts on LOST first just 4 a laught at sgf@talktalk.net hehehehehe

steve says, October 5th, 2006

You saw Lost? Can you post a link of ur proxy?
Ive tried every method, but to no avail, I flushed my ip, several times, manually…..
Ive also noticed that the same problem occurs with rapidshare premium, even cleaned out my system usin ccleaner,, I think this is sum kind of networking problem……..

flight815 says, October 5th, 2006

It is ABC detecting the proxy, even after you launch the viewer. I got several different friends living in the states to check for me, and they can watch the episodes just fine. This is so stupid. I’m D/L the ep now and it’s taking forever, with little progress, and another 5 hours to go. Although, it’s told me “another 5 hours” since I started downloading 8 hours ago. All this trouble to watch 42 minutes of Lost. It better be a damn good episode…

steven watched lost on abc from uk says, October 5th, 2006

lol it is very good bear with right here goes i did not do wot the guy said at top off the page i not tryed that yet might do but i will get this out first i have a link that u can watch live abc this link has not got the ability 2 watch back the programme like on the abc.com webpage but u can watch it live at 5am wed night/thur morn pict quality v good sound a bit jumpy for first 10 min after that is ok hope u enjoy comments back would b nice here goes http://www.viidoo.com/en/index.php

Christy says, October 5th, 2006

Steven - thank you so much for the link! The picture and sound is great quality, albeit on a tiny screen. Now I can have my desparate housewives!

Charly says, October 5th, 2006

where can you download the new episode Please Help

steve says, October 5th, 2006

theres a few ere Charly…..

http://www.torrentspy.com/

Charly says, October 5th, 2006

How do these torrents work i don’t understand please Help!

steve says, October 5th, 2006

Google azureuz, and download the programme… Theres other on the market, but this is the safest and most reliable….

flight815 says, October 6th, 2006

Steven, dude, THANK YOU! You just saved me so much grief.

Greg says, October 6th, 2006

Hello all — I found hundreds of proxies using Charon, but only a handful were anonymous and none of the anonymous ones were in the USA. I also tried yourproxy.com, which got me into the web site without the “you must be in the USA” message, but I got the same javascript issue Steve did. Christy’s comment was helpful, but I have no idea where this “remove client scripting” check box is — it’s certainly not in the Internet Options box on IE.

I also tried http://www.proxy4free.info, which listed several anonymous US proxies, none of which worked to get to any website.

I finally took Steve’s advice and went to torrentspy.com and found multiple files of season 3, episode 1 (as well many earlier episodes) available for download. It’s downloading now (takes about 3 hours) so hopefully it will work! What a lot of hassle to see an episode!

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[...] In this day and age of streaming media, downloads, PVR’s, VOD and online video stores it seems that it’s still the people running TV companies and the lawyers who decide who sees what when. It is possible to get ABC in the UK using the streaming video capability that abc.com provides, but this requires you to do some ‘hacking’ of your computer’s IP address to make them think that you’re in the US. I wouldn’t recommend it and I’m not entirely sure it’s legal. [...]

MaryKay says, October 9th, 2006

This doesn’t work for me. Should it work for wireless connections?

thanks

Erin says, October 10th, 2006

I tried using Charon but when i scanned for new proxies no results came up. I also tried using other proxies from websites but none would work.

Lionlost says, October 11th, 2006

Is there no other way to see the episodes first time they are aired???

tandy says, October 11th, 2006

using a proxy doesn’t work anymore, because abc changed the mechanism

Michael says, October 12th, 2006

Yes But everytime i always get Errror: Episodes are temporarily unavailable, Please try again at another time. what does that mean. can you do something about that? is it normal?SOme one help Please

michael says, October 12th, 2006

I tryed lots of ip too

jake says, October 12th, 2006

I have the same problem,can someone help. does anyone else have this problem

Hailey says, October 14th, 2006

Help, i’m getting the error message “Episodes are temporarily unavailable”. What can I do to fix it?

Michael says, October 14th, 2006

They must have gotten smarter

Brett says, October 19th, 2006

Any luck with CBS?

Stef says, October 19th, 2006

Its very annoying - someone must know how to make it work. I also watched the last series online from the UK behind a US proxy. The first two of Season 3 are now on YouTube. Am trying to watch episode 3 which I can’t find anywhere - yet!

John says, October 20th, 2006

how do u watch abc things on sopcast

Sue says, October 25th, 2006

hey, did anyone find an answer to the ip problem? every time i try to lock into the full lengh episodes with an us proxy it tells me that you have to live in the states to watch these shows. please help me… i so wanna watch the shows…

Carol says, October 25th, 2006

i have a mac and nothing is working. can anyone help? i just want to watch my shows!

stef says, October 26th, 2006

try http://www.watchlost.com

tommaso.tessarolo » Blog Archive » ABC Streams TV Series. says, November 24th, 2006

[...] Soluzione ideale per risolvere questo problema è però proporre all’utenza una soluzione “real-on-deman”. Ecco che allora il web, ancora una volta, diventa la piattaforma ideale per la distribuzione in modalità “non lineare” di questa tipologia contenuti d’intrattenimento. La ABC ha recentemente pubblicato online tutti gli ultimi episodi dei suoi serial TV più famosi. Non è possibile scaricarli bensì vederli online tramite un Flash player, questo per proteggere il più possibile la “copiabilità” del contenuto. Per tutelare i confini dei diritti di riproduzione invece ABC ha adottato un cosiddetto “geo filter” che taglia fuori dalla visione tutti i cittadini non USA. O almeno tutti i cittadini che leggittimanente non abbiano deciso di navigare il web in maniera anonima: in questo caso l’accesso agli episodi è aperto a tutti. [...]

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[...] Readers of my personal blog know I’ve been checking out Hulu this morning, NBC’s video streaming service. While browsing the selection of programs one last time I noticed they had Sideways posted. It’s the full-screen version but it looks pretty nice in full screen mode on my Macbook. So if you don’t have this movie on DVD, just watch it below (sorry, Hulu is U.S. only right now so folks overseas will have to muck about with proxy servers). [...]

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no1 says, December 26th, 2007

yeah the proxy stuff dont work anymore. I mean, u can still go behind a proxy and go to random site on the net and that site will report that your new IP is whatever your proxy changed it to. the proxy itself is fine and still works in firefox/IE.

the problem is the websites have found another way to detect where you live, so the proxy stuff doesnt cut it anymore. Ive been trying to watch some shows off MTV but even behind a proxy on both firefox/IE it still says I dont live in the US.

now i dunno how the websited done it, damn persistant bastards, but they can still figure out where you’re connecting from. now there should still be a way to get the video streams working, but im guessing it would require much more elaborate hacking then a simple proxy trick

John says, December 31st, 2007

well, i have looked for too long and found one site that will work and is working with not only ABC but NBC CBS and the lot.

http://www.VpnAccounts.com

Most vpn sellers out there have not been able to make it work. I have tried several, all were friendly yet was unable to use their services. I kept getting the message that it is not available at my location.

Vpn Accounts & Services have a special VPN for watching TV. Regular VPN accounts will not work hence the price they charge… last i checked 24 usd

Watch US TV Online

Al says, January 5th, 2008

The CBS (cbs.com) site still works with proxies, I just used it tonight. However, when I try Heroes on NBC or any ABC programme it seems not to work. Any ideas?

Martin says, January 6th, 2008

I used the VPN site above and it worked just fine, although it was not free.

I am fairly positive you will not be finding a free solution.

james says, January 16th, 2008

using the VPN site stated above, how long did it take [those that used it] to recieve the email from the website?

cheers.

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Manuel says, January 21st, 2008

YEAH PEOPLE IT WORKS!
Just download and execute the programme http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/
Its great!!! But temporarely the shows are unavailable at the moment! But when they are back on - this programme will do it - it rocks!!!

Nora says, January 23rd, 2008

An addition to Manuel’s writing:

Yes, HotSpot Shield works fine, but if you’re in a different time zone than US, for example in Europe, you must switch your Time Zone settings in Windows to US time. If you don’t, ABC’s site always tells you that the episode’s not currently available and doesn’t begin loading it!

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Michael says, January 24th, 2008

That sounds great! but is there a better vpn site? Thats free? i used hotspot shield but it deleted my text in my start menu. I had to restart and uninstall! SO is there a better program?

michael says, January 24th, 2008

What about openvpn? does that work?

Paul says, January 29th, 2008

Great - I have just seen Nora’s post on changing the time zone settings in Windows, and had previously been frustrated by the ‘not currently available’ error message. Now with hotspot shield it works fine here in Europe, and you can easily dispose of the banner ads which do not return!
Thanks for the info.

Kristina says, January 31st, 2008

I used hotspot shield for ABC and it works great! However I tried NBC and it still doesn’t work. Any way past NBC? I live in Italy cause I’m military and I think its unfair I can’t watch shows I know and love cause I’m in a foreign country.

Annebeth says, January 31st, 2008

Hi everyone
I just downloaded Hotspot, but I can’t watch the episodes on ABC. It still says that only us viewers can watch the episodes.

What is it that I’m doing wrong?

(I live in the Netherlands)

The shield is green, though it says:
State: Waiting for server
VPN IP Address: Not Set
VPN Server Address:
Bytes In/Out: 0/910
Connected Since: donderdag 31 januari 2008 7:18:38

Jessica says, January 31st, 2008

Hi Annebeth,
you have to set your system time to US time first. Make sure your webbrowser and Hotspot is closed. Then open hotspot and connect. At “connected since” it must show US time otherwise it wont work. If that worked try open the abc site again. Good luck!

Tony says, February 3rd, 2008

Hi everyone
I’ve change the system time to US (-5) but when I start Hotspot it won’t to connect. I live in France.

Michael Asoke says, February 3rd, 2008

Currently I live in Thailand and I was blocked as well, but switched to a OpenVPN solution. My provider ( http://www.strongvpn.com ) is a monthly fee but at least there are no bandwidth charges at it’s 24 hour support. I got a IpodTouch and they were right there to help me set it up.

I don’t mind paying for the service since I use my IpodTouch in airports, would not want to do that without a VPN provider.

Get off the proxies! I know my friend used one and it caused a nasty back end virus.

Jimmy says, February 4th, 2008

I definetly agree with Michael, Strong VPN is great and you can look into other providers such as:

http://www.bananavpn.com
http://www.vpnaccounts.com

****Don’t go surfing on an open wireles network .. EVER. Unless you encrypt the connection with a VPN****

Bogdan says, February 4th, 2008

it doesn’t work for me

FyRe says, February 5th, 2008

I have used Charon, and I have used many programs coupled with many proxies. Make sure you are selecting to use the external judges, and then testing the judges, as well as using ONLY the good ones. Then, when you scan for the proxies, give it like twenty minutes. Use one with SSL that is in the US, with the lowest ping time. As of current, I am using 128.119.247.210:3128 . This one enables CBS, and VH1, but confuses me for MTV.com and NBC.com, as I get through on the site, but no video loads at all. Flash is not detected through the proxy, as it does not enable taking information from your computer.

brdnfrd says, February 8th, 2008

Slingbox works great!

Chris says, February 9th, 2008

Yeah it’s easier to use the time hack by changing the time to a US timezone than going through a proxy. Hopefully that works for most. I’m a soldier in Iraq and it does for me.

Fernseher says, February 10th, 2008

Thanks so much to:
Manuel, January 21st, 2008
Nora, January 23rd, 2008
Absolutely amazing! So easy! The best non-geeky way I have found….
(und Dank natuerlich auch an Martin/ghacks natürlich das posting und die Seite im allgemeinen. )

TSCC says, February 21st, 2008

Hello

For a few time it works for me with HotSpot Shield an the time change. But now the Fox player shows the merchandise and then it doesnt stop loading the episode.
Doesn’t HotSpot Shield work any more?

Kristina says, February 22nd, 2008

I’ve been having the same problem. I wasn’t sure if it was hotspot or an issue with the flashplayer. Anyone know? or anyone else having the same problem? I’ll load up an episode, it’ll play the very first commercial and then it’ll go into the “loading” and nothing happens, blank screen.

Alex says, February 22nd, 2008

I have the same problem TSCC has, the episode does not stop loading. Can anyone help?

Megatron says, February 22nd, 2008

I have the same problem as alex kristina and TSCC

stephe says, February 23rd, 2008

Try running hotspot to access the video and when “loading” appears turn off hotspot. Worked for me. Let me know if it works for you too.

Alex says, February 26th, 2008

@ Stephe
It worked for me too by turning off hotspot while the episode is loading…

Thx

Natasha says, February 26th, 2008

I’ve got the http://www.strongvpn.com account, and can say that it really helps. Nice guys in support team solved my problem…

Pye says, February 27th, 2008

So, is it illegal or anything?

†}^TN^{†P@nd3þSld says, March 4th, 2008

OMFG…it works….good

Marklon says, March 10th, 2008

I installed Hotspot Shield and changed the system time
but it does not work at any site. Its connected and green. I live in Austria. I have Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 installed. Can i run Hotspot with another security tool? I also tried to turning off Hotspot while loading the movie but then my firefox freezes.

dini says, March 10th, 2008

I get this page when I open hotspot:

AnchorFree’s products and services can be supported by the sponsor you choose.
We hope you select a sponsor and appreciate them for making AnchorFree’s products and services free of charge. No personal information is required.
Click here to proceed

So i do and it reverts back to this - I hae disbaled my pop up

Marklon says, March 10th, 2008

the same happen to me when i use internet explorer. When i use firefox, it works.

dini says, March 11th, 2008

Holy mackeral it bloddy works! Thanks Mark. It’s not perfect I get an error saying episode not available but it still starts; i cant pause it and when an add appears I cant go back to the episode as I cant see any buttons. Weird.

Marklon says, March 11th, 2008

my experiences with watching us channels from austria.

i use firefox! i get problems if i have my kaspersky internet security on. so i have do shut it down if i want to watch online. I have Win XP running.

watch fox.com, Sci-Fi Channel and nbc.com:

1) install hotspot shield (free).
2) install and register (free) veoh tv.
3) turn your system time to an us-time.
4) start and connect to hotspot shield.
5) start veoh TV
6) select channels, browse to your favorite
channel and start watching. have fun. (cbs.com can be choosen but it does not work. maybe you get it)

watch abc.com:

1) set to us-time (if you changed it back)
2) start hotspot shield.
3) go to abc.com and try to start streaming a show. the streaming should start with an commercial. after that comm. shut down the hotspot shield and it should go on with the show. have fun.
(if i do not close hotspot after comm. the show does not start. its only loading without end.)

watch cbs.com:

1) system time set to us-time.
2) start hotspot
3) go to cbs.com and just watch. you dont have to do anything else. have fun.

hope it works at you too.

PS: dini, sometimes the episodes are realy not available but if you try it later it should be working again. the other problem i do not have.

az2008 says, March 12th, 2008

hi tried everything from top to bottom of this page and im really anoyed that nothing has worked…im no on the hotspot thing and change the time on comp and on browser on EI and on firefox and ive done it so many times just to make sure and i get this after it plays around:
State:
Disconnected [bandwidth exceeded]
VPN IP Address:
Not Set
VPN Server Address:
Bytes In/Out:
Connected Since:

And i got that from the 1st time i tried it whats wrong here? all options are changed believe me to us time zone on browser and comp clock….HELP PLEASE all i want to do is watch a free episode of mtv hellllp please thanks

az2008 says, March 12th, 2008

just please help

dini says, March 12th, 2008

I never had a problem seeing abc etc I had a problem seeing the pause button etc. one the stream started. It seems to be ok now mustve been a memory problem.

I d/l veoh but it messes things up totally. If i try and open abc it hangs even before I get anything and as for playing anything in veoh well thats a non starter. I see loading and yes I do shutdown hotspot.

I can see cbs and just watched something on fox. Gonna try all US channels that stream soon - looks like they will all work.

dini says, March 12th, 2008

az follow this in the exact order I do:
Turn on hotspot
Open firefox
Open abc etc
Open tv series
it will play an ad then says loading - as soon as it says loading close hotspot.

Marklon says, March 12th, 2008

dini: if you use veoh tv, dont close the hotspot tool. that trick witch closing it is only for the abc site.

az2008: it seems your hotspot is not working. i unf. dont know why. maybe you can find another vpn software like that for free.

maybe on different systems you have to vary the methods a bit.

anz2008 says, March 12th, 2008

Marklon, what do you mean different systems…im on xp is that what u mean? and what vpn do you do u recomend

??
thanks

dini says, March 12th, 2008

veoh is useless. Doesnt have abc on it and most programs dont work with or without hotspot. Only ons that do work are the 2 min or so clips. I’m getting that error again sometimes on abc now but it’s no biggie.

Az I think mark means get another program like hotspot - if you read further up there is one you can pay for. Perhaps someone else knows of a free one.

killa says, March 18th, 2008

does any1 know any good proxy sites to bypass my schools blockers

Kristina says, March 20th, 2008

I”m still looking for a way to watch NBC shows….anyone found a solution to this?

alex says, March 21st, 2008

Hey
I still cant watch abc. I get into the menue and it always says that it has limited commercials but after this nothing happens anymore even though i turned off Hotspot

rauf says, March 22nd, 2008

i tried using the address stated above
192.104.67.250 port:8080
i couldnt even load my home page.
i live in malaysia
i want to watch a few series on abc. can someone pls help me

Ed says, March 22nd, 2008

Marklon - Thanks very much matey for the info. It works like a dream (on ABC anyway)…now we just need to find away to get rid of the fookin adverts! I don’t understand how you people in the US put up with SOOOO many ads…insane!

rachel says, March 24th, 2008

Thanks Marklon and the others, i can now finally watch my favorites online, it works on nbc and abc just great (using hotspot shield & IE or Firofox)! You guys saved my day.

Shannon says, March 25th, 2008

Don’t you love how you can watch all the commercials to sites but you can’t watch anything with actual entertainment value….
Stupid Media.

Oz says, March 29th, 2008

still getting that bloody
episodes are temporarely unavailable please try again at other time

anyone with any kind of help..
i’m using proxy switcher and getting through easily but at the moment of load..that message..
i already changed the time on pc..

cheers

kmix6 says, March 31st, 2008

Hey, I am from Jamaica and I want to say thanks guys keep up the good work.

german_guy says, April 6th, 2008

people,

thx a lot, thats amazing. im from germany and im now able to see the last season of bsg, nearly a year before it starts in germany.

greetz

Ryochus says, April 6th, 2008

Doesnt work.

Doesnt work on the CW Television Network.

Simon says, April 8th, 2008

if you pay it works. What do you expect from free service? nothing is free in this world.

Zaayn says, April 10th, 2008

Yeah, I can never get Hotspot Shield to open either!
I’m on Vista.
Unable to connect

Navigator can’t establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:895.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Navigator is permitted to access the Web.

sunshine says, April 15th, 2008

It doesn’t work. I can’t connect to the internet with this. Is it because i have dsl?

Asoke says, April 15th, 2008

StrongVPN still works great for me, not sure why you can’t connect with Hotspot,if you like try their forum.. they helped me before I was a customer.

http://strongvpn.com/forum/index.php

Zaayn says, April 21st, 2008

it actually started to work, they came out with a new version….that did it.
I watched a show!

Ray says, April 23rd, 2008

Does not work, just says “cannot display web page” instead.

Zoe says, April 25th, 2008

Hey guys,
I watch episodes on abc with hotspot shield. Recently the streaming turns of after a few minutes and I get the message shows are temporarily not available, can anyone help?

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Michael Stacher says, April 26th, 2008

As people above have mentioned, you will not be able to find a quality service for free. I guess that’s true for most things in life.

I am on a business trip to Egypt and just got a VPN account from Happy VPN. The address is http://www.happyvpn.net/watch-tv.php

I enjoyed that I was browsing for ways to watch USA tv shows, found happy VPN, ordered and received very quickly the account. I still had the pages I searched on open when they sent me the account and the instructions on how to make it work.(and it sure works nice!)

So, highly recommended, tryit yourself:
http://www.happyvpn.net/watch-tv.php

Chloe says, April 28th, 2008

I live in the US and it wont let me watch these shows!!

Stacey says, April 29th, 2008

Hey all…

so i started using Hotspot 2 days ago and had no problems with it, i was able to leave it on and still watch the shows didnt have tho change time or anything (probabaly cuz i’m in canada and the time is the same) anyway today when i went to watch the shows i went to connect to hotspot and it gave me this….

State:
Disconnected [auth failure]
VPN IP Address:
Not Set

does anyone know what this means? or how to fix it i tried uninstalling it and redoing it but it still doesnt work.

if not does anyone know where i can watch Falcon beach online?