Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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Im new to Kodi and have been wondering this myself. For the last year I have been subscribing to Unblockus.com which is DNS based (mainly to swap netflix regions, which now Netflix are getting wise to). Im not sure if this works in the same way as VPN. Is there anyone who is more techy who can advice? thanks
DNS is domain name server, this is how netflix.com gets translated to an ip address. Your internet provider well give you an automatic dns server which is located in the UK. Because it is located in the UK it will resolve netflix.com to the ip address for the uk netflix site. If you change your dns server to a US one, it will resolve to the US netflix site.
Vpn encrypts all of your data. You will connect to a vpn peer, a site somewhere, and from there you browse whatever sites you want and because all traffic is encrypted your internet provider will not know what sites you are connecting to, so they cannot block your access.
I do not use a vpn yet because i can get to whatever sites i want but this is slowly changing. Once the isp's have blocked the majority of streaming sites, we will need a vpn. This is the great thing about kodi, they usually provide a number of links to whatever stream you want to watch, so if one fails, possibly due to being blocked, you can try another.