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How To Change Your Country IP Address
The IP address of your computer is an identifier that is used to distinguish it on a network. It is often linked to your online activity and many sites record the search activity and history linked to your IP address.
Your IP address can also be traced to your physical location. Changing your IP address (or masking it) is an important way of increasing your security and privacy online. It prevents sites tracking your searching activity, and targeting ads to you based on your browsing activities.
By "disappearing" from the network, you also reduce or eliminate the risk of being spied on. Legal tracking activity is one thing, but some people use tools like "packet sniffing" to monitor and steal information passed over a shared network, This could be your local wifi cafe, a dorm Internet connection, the network your computer is connected to at work, or any other shared connection.
There are additional benefits if you want to change your country IP address. There is a substantial amount of media that is country specific. For example, streaming video through Hulu, Netflix, Pandora and other music/television/movie streaming sites is limited to the United States. BBC iPlayer, Sky Player, BBC One, and others are limited to access from The UK. As for other countries, is sure to be local websites that are not available once you leave the country. If you change your country IP address you can access this content by making the site think that you are viewing from within the country.
Another benefit is accessing blocked content. This is different from the example above. Rather than having websites that block you based on location, is could be that your government or local authority is blocking your access. Many countries such as China, Vietnam, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia strongly restrict the access that their citizens have to external media. This is done with firewalls, and being able to change your country IP address is one way of bypassing this.
There are a number of ways to change your country IP address through available services online. This means you don't have to mess with buying special routers or any other hardware. The two fastest, most convenient, and most effective ways are called web based proxies and virtual private networks.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a secure network commonly used by businesses and institutions because of its high security for traffic. You'll see terms like "128 bit encryption", which means there's a code 128 bits long which gives you trillions of combinations of numbers to be able to access this code – pretty much impossible to crack. Stronger encryption is available, but usually unnecessary. A VPN is controlled by the VPN server which allocates IP addresses to all devices (you) on the network. Unless you request a dedicated IP, every time you sign into the VPN, you'll get a new IP, based on the location of the VPN server.
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There are many VPN providers online, and these assign IP addresses in different ways. In addition the number of available IP addresses changes across providers, with quality providers having thousands of IP addresses in many different countries available. Many providers will let you change the allocated IP address as often as you desire, as well as choosing to change your country IP address. You'll see this labeled as "free server switching" in their advertisements, and this is good for giving you direct control over what country you appear to be browsing from.
An alternative to VPNs in a proxy. There are software based proxies available, but if you're considering that option, you'd best go with a VPN. It's more secure, more reliable, and won't cost more than a dollar or two more per month. Web based proxies however, offer a number of advantages over software based solutions to change your country IP address.
A web based proxy requires no installation, which means you can use it on anything that connects to the Internet. Your iPhone or Android phone, your iPad or Android Tablet, Windows, Linux, or Mac. You can use it at work, school, at home, and on public computers. Because the secure link is accessible from your email inbox, you don't have to worry about the main domain being blocked. Using a web based proxy, you won't be able to choose the location of your IP address, but a professional service will have US and UK based servers, if not Netherlands/German based servers.
If accessing video streaming sites from The UK and The US is your goal here however, you'd better go with a VPN, as many entertainment sites like this block the use of proxies for security reasons. Some proxies can be used to send spam or anonymously abuse site policies.
The best web based proxy service I know is SecuriTales. They're professional and fast, and have US/UK based servers to change your country IP address to American or British. There's a free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee, so there's nothing stopping you from trying it out for yourself. Remember that when using a proxy, it's important to use a service you can trust to prevent abuse of your IP data.
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There are a number of professional and inexpensive VPN services out there. I've tried many over the years, but there are two in particular that stick out.
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Hide My Ass has a ProVPN package that pretty much destroys the competition. Thousands of IP across 32 countries in almost 200 locations. A year subscription costs the same as three months for some other services that offer less. There's a 30 day money back guarantee on top of a free web based proxy, anonymous email, anonymous file sharing, and more anonymous surfing tools.
VyprVPN is a VPN provider owned by Golden Frog, which provides a number of Internet tools technologies. VyprVPN is a very secure, very professional service dedicated to keeping you anonymous online. With both 128 and 256 bit encryption available, your identity online is guaranteed to be anonymous and secure. I should also mention that it's not an advertising gimmick when they say that they are the fastest VPN in the world. Ok, I haven't actually measured it, but connection speeds are much faster than other VPN providers I've tried.
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