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In November 2014, Amazon released the Fire TV Stick as a complement and a contender to the default Fire TV released a few months earlier. As the name reveals, the Fire TV Stick is pretty much the same service but compacted into a USB flash drive. You can get Kodi installed on it to create your own portable TV. This is great news for those who want to take their TV service everywhere right? Right, but it is not that simple. What happens is that certain TV channels will be blocked outside the territory they belong to. This is the case for the U.S. versions of Netflix or Amazon Instant Video for example: you’re not able to access these if you’re outside of the U.S. Luckily for you there is one little thing you can install on your TV Stick that will allow you access: a VPN.
IPVanish is one of the world’s top VPN providers and your best pick for unblocking channels on Kodi using an Amazon Fire Stick. However, while on computers all it takes for you to combine Kodi and IPVanish is to simply turn the VPN on first, when using a Fire Stick the setup is not that plain and simple. Given this, you have two options here: using a VPN router or enabling internet sharing from a computer that’s already running IPVanish.
The first one is probably the most simple as you can either apply the necessary settings changes to your existing router (as long as it runs DD-WRT or Tomato) such as primary and secondary DNS changes, or opt for a dedicated VPN router that you use solely for establishing secure VPN connections. The quickest way with the least hassle is to get a new device that you can order already pre-flashed with IPVanish setup on the router from FlashRouters.com. These routers are especially useful since they are already pre-configured and set to work with the VPN service of your choice, saving you the time and effort to accurately set your VPN and making it even easier for you to use your Amazon Fire TV Stick or other devices.
In the same way, VPN routers are our recommendation for setting up Kodi with both IPVanish and the Fire Stick device, instead of using it on the OpenVPN protocol and having this set upon the VPN installation or manager on your device. After that all you need to do is choose a server located in the country of the channel you want to watch on Kodi, and wave goodbye to any geo-blocks.
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