In a previous job I had working for a film streaming company, I would look at streaming sessions with high "buffering" associated with them. Typically anything over 1%. Our content was restricted via various methods to clients in the US and Candada. About once or twice a week I would see very high buffering problems with one or two sessions. These would typically be from IP addresses associated with VPN providers in the US and had snuck past some restrictions we had in place to comply with our distribution licensing.
Our client would also report the WAN IP address of the machine it was running on so we were able to determine that many of these sessions were coming from United Arab Emirates and various countries in Europe. But a surprising high percentage from UAE. At first, these our of North America streaming sessions were very infrequent and we just ignored them as if they are going to try to do this and suffer > 10% buffering, oh well. After a while it was more than just a handful and we had to put into place more safeguards. Tim On 7/28/18 12:26 PM, raglencross wrote: > > Unfortunately, using a VPN does not guarantee being unblocked. Some > services monitor for VPN assigned addresses and block them when > detected. Netflix is one of the most aggressive in doing this and in my > experience Pandora does the same. Some VPN providers try to stay ahead > of the game by acquiring new IP addresses, but eventually the streaming > services catch them out. I personally use both a VPN and DNS provider > and find the latter to be more reliable when accessing US streaming > services. Regardless, you should contact your VPN provider about the > problem because they generally rely on their customers to tell them what > sites are blocked before they take corrective action. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
