[Novalug] Access to US sites from Overseas

[Mark Smith]

many websites identify where you're coming from based on IP and
will block you.  any company that is providing content is pretty
much guaranteed to block you.  think hulu, nbc.com, etc.

the proxy services i've seen are crap.  they depend upon you typing
things into their web browser manually.  hyperlinking definitely
doesn't like it.

i haven't found a real web proxy yet, but i haven't looked that
hard anyway.  at the end of the day, it won't be access via the
port 80, but by code embedded in javascript or flash so you're guess
is what port it'll use.

if you want access to everything you enjoy now, you'll require real
VPN encapsulation and i haven't gone so far as to actually try that
to see if that works so you're guess is as good as mine at this
point.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Subba Rao wrote:
> If I were to access websites from overseas during
> travel, are there any limitations on the US sites I can access?  Is
> there any proxy service that I can purchase to allow like local
> access?  From what I heard that some sites are blocked to outside IP addresses.  Is this true?

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