Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?
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@aagaag said in Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?:
@bcruze thanks, but can you elaborate? Does the "96 dollar a year plan" refer to Proton?
https://protonvpn.com/pricing
https://protonvpn.com/support/watch-netflix-with-vpn/
this works with Netflix NOT amazon prime video
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Has anyone successfully used their own VPN on a cloud server?
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"VPN subscription services provide a workaround.... fees are being paid to Netflix (which otherwise would be lost), and nobody is financially or otherwise harmed.
-Absolutely!
Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?
-It might be worthwhile to ask on this forum; https://www.reddit.com/r/NetflixViaVPN/
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@gobbagu said in Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?:
"VPN subscription services provide a workaround.... fees are being paid to Netflix (which otherwise would be lost), and nobody is financially or otherwise harmed.
-Absolutely!
Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?
-It might be worthwhile to ask on this forum; https://www.reddit.com/r/NetflixViaVPN/
Actually someone may be being harmed. Royalties are due based on geographic distribution agreements and as a result not all content may be legally distributed in all geographic areas, or if they are distributed in multiple areas, it is quite possible that different entities get paid.
Having said that, if they don't make their content available, they get what they deserve if someone uses technical methods to get it from another jurisdiction.
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Netflix and others keep track of the VPN Exit nodes. They also know the IP Ranges of VPS providers, so rolling your own DNS or VPN Server will fail, too.
However, they cannot block ISP IP Ranges in the US. If you have friends and family in the US you could do the following:Give your friends some $$$ so they can upgrade their Internet Plan to something with a decent upload bandwidth (10 - 20 Mbit/sec) - whatever works for watching HD TV ...
Purchase a small Netgate Appliance (SG-1000 will do) and configure an OPEN VPN or IPSEC Server on a stick. Connect it to your friends router and setup port forwarding on the router so that you can access your VPN Server at your friends house.
At your overseas location setup pfsense and establish a VPN Connection to your friends house ... You could set up a VLAN for your Media Player of choice....
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I had Netflix working with Witopia (openVPN) but only certain exit nodes.
Was never able to make it work with StrongVPN.
Amazon Prime did not work with the same node as Netflix, but did occasionally work with an alternate.
L2TP worked fine for both services.Currently in a location with DPI blocking most domestic VPN, so now none of these options are viable.
SmartDNS provider UnoTelly working for Amazon, but not Netflix.
It's all very frustrating - I thought television was the new 'opium for the masses'...
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@awair I am interested in your comment that L2TP worked fine for both services. Did you use pfSense to establish the L2TP tunnel? I am not hung up on OpenVPN and I could use L2TP. However, I had understood from another thread that the L2TP implementation of pfSense is not meant to be used with a public VPN provider, and that it would be impossible to make it work. If you did, would you be able to share the parameters that you used?
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@aagaag said in Did anybody ever get StrongVPN/Primevideo/Netflix to work with pfSense?:
@awair I am interested in your comment that L2TP worked fine for both services. Did you use pfSense to establish the L2TP tunnel? I am not hung up on OpenVPN and I could use L2TP. However, I had understood from another thread that the L2TP implementation of pfSense is not meant to be used with a public VPN provider, and that it would be impossible to make it work. If you did, would you be able to share the parameters that you used?
AFAIK the issue with L2TP is simply that it is not secure. If it's just for Netflix traffic, it shouldn't be an issue.
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@aagaag Sorry, never with pfsense, although I did find a tutorial that stated it could be used with Tomato, which gave me some hope.
Two links, both very similar:
https://www.safervpn.com/support/articles/115001428485-Manual-L2TP-Setup-for-Tomato-Router
https://www.limevpn.com/how-to-use/tomato-routers-l2tpip-sec-setup-instructions/This didn't work for me, because I have a Static IP (over PPPoE). The setup requires the main (WAN) internet connection to be setup as L2TP. Sounded logical (from a newbie perspective) but improbable (with a little knowledge).
Since both links are from the relevant support teams of VPN providers, maybe it does work, and these similar settings could be applied to pfsense?
http://pfsense.local/interfaces.php?if=wan offers an IPv4 Configuration Type option of L2TP.
If I had a 2nd WAN, I would try it, but think it may also fail if your connection is PPPoE?
Maybe the gurus can help explain (but keep it simple, please?)
Many thanks.
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