Watch Hulu Outside the USA on your PC

Watching free internet tv and catch up TV is great isnt it? Especially the great Hulu website showing all the greatest TV shows. However, if your a non US resident then you must be cursing every time you hear the name Hulu. Because you cannot watch it outside the US can you? Well actually, yes you can so long as you know what your doing and dont mind a little hassle to get going.

hulu 6 Watch Hulu Outside the USA on your PC Because of copyright laws and license agreements going on around the world, the website checks your IP address and if you are anywhere other than within the US then you get the dreaded message saying your unable to view.

Watch Hulu and you can watch full TV episodes and movies from NBC, Fox, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, MGM, Lionsgate and more. Top shows include Battlestar Galactica, The Simpsons, Naruto, Bones, House, Arrested Development, Prison Break, Family Guy, The Office, Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, American Dad amongst many other TV greats.

So now that your appetite is suitably wetted, how do you watch Hulu outside the US? Well heres where we get technical and talk about proxies and Virtual Private Servers.

Watching Hulu outside the USA

Now the first option is a software product that creates a virtual private network. This fools Hulu into not realising your outside the USA. Just install and run HotSpot Shield, in your taskbar you will see a small icon. Mouse over and right click, connect to Hulu and start watching great TV.

HotSpot Shield is a little erratic and only has a miserly 8GB bandwith limit so you may only be able to watch a few shows or movies before you have to stop

Another way to watch Hulu is to download Ultrareach. The idea behind this product is to allow users of the world to enjoy the internet, especially in highly policed countries. After running it will connect you to a US proxy and therefore allow you to watch Hulu in peace

Ultrareach can affect your antivirus software and you may get many warnings from your PC but it is fine to use

Next is AlwaysVPN (which at time of posting is temporarily down). This is a free to use virtual private network that passes all of your internet useage through it in a similar way to Hotspot.

This software also makes you view advertising whilst watching

So there you have it. It is possible to watch Hulu from anywhere in the world. The solution is available, just not so simple. But until they sort out the stupid restrictions of useage its all you got.

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5 Responses to “Watch Hulu Outside the USA on your PC”

Cannot watch catch up tv? You have been Geo targeted | World Internet TV PC Blog on February 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

[...] is a roundabout solution if you happen to reside in another country and it is free to use. Watch Hulu Outside the USA. This information also applies to Watching the other big networks such as CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX TV [...]
eric zhang on April 14th, 2009 at 3:49 am

let me try this software.OK/
Watch Hulu on May 29th, 2009 at 6:40 am

Hulu recently banned hotshield users from accessing their site. There are still dozens of paid alternatives though. The one I use when I’m traveling is http://www.hidemynet.com , it’s a low fee of 5 USD per month and I’ve never had any problems using it.
Elizabeth on August 4th, 2009 at 11:24 am

Hula can now detect the ultra search and says that i am attempting to access though an anonymous proxy tool
oxy on September 26th, 2009 at 3:32 am

hotspot shield and ultrasurf do not work. didn’t try AlwaysVPN