<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:05 am, Jonathan Thorpe <<a href="mailto:jthorpe@Conexim.com.au" class="">jthorpe@Conexim.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">While it doesn’t address all of the challenges of geo-blocking (in particular, measuring latency), I’ve often thought a more effective approach to this might be, instead of selling an ISP service to do this (for both legal/political and technical reasons), would be a wall-wart kind of device that you simply plugin to your router, that:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Serves as a gateway and takes over DHCP and DNS.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -18pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Geo-dodges DNS and provides a range of VPN services you can selectively route traffic over (i.e. PBR).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>If you have a VPS in the USA (and this mailing list is probably populated by people who are more likely than other forums to tick that box), then you could do a lot worse than giving this a try:</div><div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://users.on.net/~newton/netflix.html" class="">http://users.on.net/~newton/netflix.html</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>(obviously written before Netflix officially opened in Australia, but it was an effective solution for my household for several years, maybe it’s an effective one for yours too)</div><div><br class=""></div><div> - mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>