aster wrote:Doing it the DNS way is extremely simple. It makes VPN look like rocket science in comparison if you are to use Apple TV this way.zzm9980 wrote:I was actually under the impression it wasn't this simple. The VPN services redirect you to a transparent proxy server in the appropriate geo location which then retrieves your content. It's a simpler configuration for your appliances on your network, but on the backend it is just as complicated (or more so) as a VPN.
Both ways require you to pay some small monthly fee, but with DNS-based solutions what you get in return is just a single IP address to use in your DNS settings. In fact all you have to do to make Apple TV work from here under any ISP is to just enter the ATV menu, go into internet settings, and input this DNS number there. That's it, nothing else required.
Right, I understand all of that. Even better, don't do that. Put it into your router so everything on your home network gets the content. What I was correcting you on was this:
Your content is still going through an intermediary proxy server somewhere, this is just not transparent to you. The "DNS" provider will host the proxy servers in the countries you want content from. Their DNS will then return IPs to their proxies on a site by site basis as appropriate as opposed to directly to the content provider you think it is.These services check your IP location only when connecting, as soon as that clears the content is streamed straight from them to you in the fastest way (unlike VPNs, where the VPN server acts like an intermediary and all traffic is routed through it).
