The Amazon Fire Stick is an awesome streaming device that you can have a lot of fun time with, provided you live inside the borders of the United States of America. If you don’t, the chances that you’ve had an opportunity to enjoy it are quite small. However, we bring you a way to unlock and watch all of the USA channels that you couldn’t access before on your personal Amazon Fire TV Stick.
Watch from anywhere in the world, and that includes UK, Germany, Australia, France, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and more. If you want to find out how to go around these restrictions and unlock these and other blocked channels, all you need to do is follow the instructions that you will find bellow in this manual. You’ll learn how to use Smart DNS and VPN’s and how to appear to be within the USA borders when you’re actually half a world away.
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If you are already familiar with VPN and Smart DNS, you understand how they work and what they are, we recommend you use Unlocator’s Smart DNS Proxy service and through it unblock US channels on your Fire Stick. You can also go to TorGuard, sign up and select a server that’s somewhere inside the USA and access the same restricted channels.
Most of the channels that interest people both in and out of the borders of the USA are, unfortunately for those on the outside, only available inside the USA. These include Netflix, Amazon Instant
Video, and Crackle and you just can’t watch these outside of the USA. However, where there’s will, there’s a way, and people have, of course, managed to find a way. Several ways, actually, that you can use to unblock and stream geo-blocked channels.
How to unblock US channels with the DNS method
First, we’ll discuss the smart DNS method. To unlock and gain access to the channels that you want to watch, let’s say Amazon Fire TV, you’ll need to get your own Fire Tv Stick and Smart DNS. DNS will use Proxy service to conceal your location from all sorts of streaming devices, including your Fire Stick. They’re pretty successful in unlocking the US version of Netflix, Amazon and the rest of these type of channels for several reasons.
For example, they run on all of the streaming devices.
They also allow you to view content from various locations, all while using a single DNS setup. They also allow you to stop a potential NFL blackout, access BBC iPlayer and watch US version of Netflix, all at once, and there’s even no need to add any extra software. Your internet speed won’t be changed at all, and you’ll be able to access your preferred channels without being interrupted.
You should check if your ISP uses DNS Hijacking or Transparent Proxies first, though. Such policies could prevent the DNS run correctly, which isn’t something you want, of course.
What VPN to use for Fire Stick
For those of you who are looking for a different way of accessing the geo-blocked content, we recommend VPNs. The way that VPNs work is slightly different than your regular Smart DNS, but it still does pretty much the same thing when it comes to unblocking the mentioned channels. It also offers some its own benefits.
If you want to use VPN and combine it with your Fire Stick, or similar devices, you can’t just set them up directly. If you chose VPNs to unlock the desired US channels, you will have to get VPN and install it on a special VPN router. After this is done, then and only then can you connect Fire Stick with the router and start sharing the connection. This is a slightly more complicated version, but if this is used, you don’t even have to check if your ISP uses Transparent Proxies or DNS Hijackers, because if this method is used, the VPN should work either way.
Basically, VPN simply increases your online privacy (and quite a bit, at that) by encrypting the data traffic. Therefore, by using one of the American VPN servers, you can unblock all of the channels at once.
This option will, however, decrease your personal internet speed. This decrease will probably be 10% or maybe 15% if you have a fast VPN. Slower VPN providers will slow you down even more and that’s why TorGuard and IPvanish are so highly recommended.
When it comes to the quality of the streaming devices, their quality depends on the channels they offer. With this in mind, it’s crucial to take as much as possible from what those devices can offer and unblock as many channels as possible. There are many channels that you can access to if you use DNSs or some of the VPN’s in combination with the Fire Stick TV and those include NBA Game Time,
Amazon Instant Video, WWE Network, Netflix, WatchESPN, Crackle, Showtime Anytime, Hulu Plus, NFL Now, Flixster, MLB.TV, History, Disney Channel, Lifetime and AOL On.
That’s all there is to it, you are now perfectly capable of unblocking and watching any one of the mentioned channels. We hope that this guide has helped those who needed it.
