Posted January 30th, 2009, in: Computer Problems and Fixes| Technology

I recently got blocked from being a subscriber to a video podcast based on nothing more than the fact that my IP Address is in the USA. The website only lets people within Australia download the content.  They can tell where people are based on the IP Address of the visitor.

One way around this is to use a “proxy”

The connection may be a little slow, but slow is better than nothing, right?

Here’s what to do in FireFox:

preferences>network>settings

Shown is one of many proxy sites’ IP Addresses you can find online by googling around.  I used xproxy.com for this example.

Once you do this, the server (website etc) your visiting thinks you’re visiting from within Australia.  Nice.  Actually you are visiting from within australia.  When you  use a proxy, your web traffic is actually going through another computer somewhere in this case, Australia.  xproxy has a bunch of proxies for different countries.

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