Many companies and organizations limit their services on the Internet to users of a specific country. This is especially true for streaming based services that stream media like music or videos over the Internet. It usually comes down to usage rights as the main reason for the limitation. Others say the limits are there to save money and bandwidth as the target audience is usually also limited to the countries the services are allowed in.
One of the best ways of accessing these services from outside the supported countries is to use a VPN, a virtual private network. This is helpful for citizens on holidays who want to access the services abroad but also – obviously – for users from other countries who want to access the services.
UltraVPN was discovered by Nakodari from Addictive Tips and we have to say that it is one of the easiest solutions right now. It works great currently and gives access to Hulu, Pandora and all the other US-only websites and services out there. The streaming quality is excellent unlike that of other free competitors (like Hotspot Shield). Our guess however is that it is only a matter of time – thanks to popularity – before the performance of UltraVPN will get a dent or two as well.
Installation is a breeze. All the user needs is to create an account at the UltraVPN website (only username and password required). The VPN setup is available for Windows and Mac OS. The username and password have to be supplied on startup. The vpn service will notify the user that the computer has been connected to it. What’s left is to access the websites and services to test the speed and quality of the service.
Head over to the Ultra VPN website to download the client, create an account and access additional information about the virtual private network. The vpn service has been successfully tested with Hulu, ABC and Pandora.
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There is no source code for UltraVPN available,
the link connects to the OpenVPN project.
Therefore UltraVPN is not open source and is in fact violating the GPL.
It is closed source and you do NOT know, what is REALLY going on under the hood.
Very, very fishy, i wouldn’t trust any service behaving like this.
ESPECIALLY when it is giving away bandwidth for free.
(Server bandwidth in the US is quite expensive compared to other parts of the world !!)
My advice, get a paid VPN account with servers in the US and connect with the REAL OpenVPN.
Tried it here, but I keep getting a French IP, so still no access to Hulu etc.
Evert it worked for me out of the box without any configuration. Maybe there is a way to select the vpn server that should be used? Have not looked for it though.
In this case, I don’t care if it’s open source or not, it’s just entertainment I want to access right? But when it’s not open, why does the project claim that?
And yeah, it does give me a non-US IP too.
thnx for the tips, it’s working great
Hmm, will try it again from a different location tonight…
that’s wrong.
ultra vpn is not us ip .
it’s for france ip attribution.at least a week ago last checked that was the case..
pls. don’t abuse service.they are people that really need such services and should remain fast and free.
UtraVPN is good service that gave me more on US IP 76.73.3.162 is located in United States (US) once in a while with France IP disconnect and connect again I got US IP.
Paid VPN to expensive for us as personal users, great thanks to Lynanda admin of UtraVPN for their kindness supported for this free service.
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/433/ultraus.gif
Donation will be on the way soon, thanks
hey ghacks.net
thanks for this great “tutorial” I am currently in Switzerland and I would like to watch some stuff on hulu. Sadly I can’t download the .dmg file for mac at the moment?
Does anyone else has the same issues? and is there a solution for the problem?
thanks for your help!
a7man
Alternative OpenVPN client for Mac OS can be found here :-
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
ultravpn.dmg got broken link from their site.
Hope this help.