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Can you use a firestick abroad?   Not necessarily for the live stuff but the stuff that's loaded
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  • TadleyBaggie
    TadleyBaggie Posts: 6,056 Forumite
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    Doubt a Firestick will care where it is located.
  • J_B
    J_B Posts: 6,445 Forumite
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    I've taken our Firestick to Cyprus and watched various UK TV channels by using a VPN
  • DullGreyGuy
    DullGreyGuy Posts: 10,463 Forumite
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    Pipcas said:
    Can you use a firestick abroad?   Not necessarily for the live stuff but the stuff that's loaded
    You can but because of the IP it has it will know its abroad and so for certain apps you will see different content or restricted content. If downloaded content will work will depends on the app and any territorial limits on the material. 

    TadleyBaggie said:
    Doubt a Firestick will care where it is located.
    It does to the degree that iPlayer won't stream, Netflix will show the Cypriate version, Prime will only stream content thats available in both the UK and Cyprus etc. 

    You can install a VPN however and then connect through the UK and then you get all you can get here (assuming it's not a VPN the app has identified/blocked). That said, it can occasionally be interesting to see Netflix content from other countries and you can use the VPN whilst at home to appear in the US or Japan etc to gain access to their content there. 
  • PHK
    PHK Posts: 1,285 Forumite
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    Remember that apps are getting good at detecting VPNs so you'll need one designed to work the service you want. 
  • Pipcas
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    PHK said:
    Remember that apps are getting good at detecting VPNs so you'll need one designed to work the service you want. 
    Forgive my obvious ignorance, what is a vpn?    An app?  An actual thing?   🤔
  • flaneurs_lobster
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    Pipcas said:
    PHK said:
    Remember that apps are getting good at detecting VPNs so you'll need one designed to work the service you want. 
    Forgive my obvious ignorance, what is a vpn?    An app?  An actual thing?   🤔
    Virtual Private Network. Try Googling it.
  • Arsenal2019
    Arsenal2019 Posts: 425 Forumite
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    I’ve had no issues - as long as the tv has a hdmi port of course…
  • flaneurs_lobster
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    Arsenal2019 said:
    I’ve had no issues - as long as the tv has a hdmi port of course…
    I've noticed that hotels quite often have an HDMI port on the wall adjacent to their TVs - I guess it's to stop punters towing the wall-mounted sets loose trying to plug in their Firesticks/Chromecasts/cables.
  • Pipcas
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    Arsenal2019 said:
    I’ve had no issues - as long as the tv has a hdmi port of course…
    Once you bought vpn online do you download it to the firestick?   
  • greyteam1959
    greyteam1959 Posts: 4,576 Forumite
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    You don't need to buy a VPN plenty of free offerings about.

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