Hbomax Caribbean and Latin America

Linoge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117717445#Comment_117717445

Why is it you keep Irish Netflix - wouldnt US or Canada have more content? Is for suggestions / local feel?

bromley52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117717813#Comment_117717813

1. It has mostly everything I want.

2. It has the most content of any Netflix county in the world.

3. Anything it doesn't have that I want to watch I can get from the other streaming services I have.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117717445#Comment_117717445

I switched settings on Getflix. US Prime, US channel A which seems to catch HBO. UK for iPlayer. Netflix is Irish, because I haven't paid for Getflix yet.

Some quick tests:

• Discovery Plus works with no issues (I was worried a setting would try to make it work from a different region and fail out, but it didn't)
• Prime Video is US version with no issues (I was able to watch a few minutes of MLB last night)
• HBO Max is US version with no issues (I was able to watch The Suicide Squad last night - not bad)
• I didn't check iPlayer, but will check today

So all in all, seems to work great.

micks_address

timing out with dns for me this evening. No joy with nord vpn

clevtrev

has been working for me the last few days on the laptop with surfshark through Argentinian VPN but on the firestick, it is detecting a VPN and throws up an error. Not sure why as they are both running through the same VPN.

ThePott

Same situation here with Nord. Been able to get it on laptop with a US VPN eventually but no luck with firestick.

andydurnin

Just found a new way to get all English channels and some US channels such as dazn on Android phone and laptop with out vpn and it's free. Just downloaded streamlocator as a chrome extension on laptop or add as an extension in browser on phone. Works well so far.

xckjoo

I'm having some success on the Shield with Nord and non-US territories. It's a bit awkward though. If the Shield goes to sleep I think the connection drops and I have to Force Stop the app when I turn it back on.

grimm2005

After an initial few days of not working with the profile error, it's now working without issue on a Xiaomi MiBox S using NordVPN. What works for me is to always connect to America first, then open a fresh instance of HBO Max app. I also force close it if I'm disconnecting from VPN so its opening from scratch when I'm going back to use it rather than from a cached/running in background state which will give problems if I've come off the VPN in the meantime. Watched Citizen Kane over the weekend with no issues and been jumping in and out since watching series. It did briefly stop to buffer a couple of times during the film but it wasn't a deal breaker in any sense, maybe 3 instance of 2 - 3 second buffers

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117733518#Comment_117733518

will try again - nord wasnt working for me last night on google tv... also getting timeouts on the popular dns people mention... annoying as i just paid for a 2 year sub... you end up getting a cheap hbo sub then buying multiple vpn/dns which takes the good out of it

Sappy404

I was getting the profile issue. Researched, some on Reddit said it was because the non-US countries don't get to 'roam', others here said it was to do with the app. I was using VPN Unlimited's dedicated HBO VPN and changed it to US Virginia, and it got past the profile error and seemed to play OK on both laptop and Xiomi Mibox 3. Def have to kill the app when changing VPN though.

SourSessions

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117733945#Comment_117733945

I can never get in on the app - but usually always do on desktop, even using the same servers.

ThePott

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117733988#Comment_117733988

Same here

dulpit

VPNs have been rubbish for me with this, but Getflix is rock solid on phone and on chromecast with google tv.

w4ntedman

Surfshark has worked perfectly all along for me on the shield. I have only watched a few buts and pieces but no hassle like others are mentioning apart from having to clear the cache if the shield goes to sleep as the app resets.

remoteboy

Has anyone had any luck paying with Revolut card (or is it possible to use Google Pay somehow?).

savemejebus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735165#Comment_117735165

Used revolut via Curve and it worked fine after refusing revolut a bunch of times

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117736302#Comment_117736302

i used revolut with a Brazilian address.. look back posts and you'll find a link to an address you can use.. there's a tax number there you need to enter as well.. payment went through fine and its renewed. Re my dns not working.. i set it up again last night on my amazon fire cube and worked fine.

Sappy404

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735165#Comment_117735165

I didn't see how to get around the Brazilian tax thing so I tried Argentina, which failed, then Costa Rica, which worked but is about €1 more than Brazil.

bromley52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117736954#Comment_117736954

How much is Brazil?

Im with Costa Rica at €2.70/month.

I know Argentina is currently about €2.30/month on July half price deal which I thought was the cheapest.

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117736954#Comment_117736954

if you check back the posts there's a link to a tax id for brazil

remoteboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117738452#Comment_117738452

Thanks for that. Was able to pay with my Revolut using the tax I’d from that website. Login not working for me yet but I figure I’ll leave it overnight and try it again tomorrow.

Mimikyu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117738073#Comment_117738073

I paid €2.29 with Revolut at the start of the month for a Brazilian sub.

Testament1

Got signed up with TunnelBear to Argentina and Revolut. Card froze initially but once I ok'd it in the app it went through no problem. Tried a 7 day trial of Surfshark but found it very slow. Signed up to a 14 day trial of Getflix but can't for the life of me get it working on my Galaxy S20, keeps failing the DNS test. Anyone else get this issue before?

bromley52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117740990#Comment_117740990

Just double checking.

Did you

1. put the selected static Getflix DNS IPs into the router or what's ever device you are using?

2. use either the Getflix app or web to update your WAN IP on the Getflix servers?

If your WAN IP changes regularly you either have to manually update or set it to autoupdate the IP.

I don't autoupdate as I use OVPN on my Firestick/Phone to connect to my network when on hols and thus use the home Getflix DNS from the router.

Testament1

Yep, I changed IP to static and entered the DNS settings listed for Ireland and Great Britain. On the Getflix dashboard I'll pass the IP test but always fail the DNS test.

micks_address

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117741654#Comment_117741654

you would need to use a dns server in US?

Testament1

My reading of it was that you're supposed to use the DNS server physically closest to you and it then sends your traffic to your chosen options for Netflix etc (US, Canada, and so on). Now I could be completely wrong there, I've never used Getflix before now.

Johnny Storm

@Testament1 You are definitely correct to use the DNS settings for Ireland and Great Britain in Getflix.

I dont know if this is relevant to you but I had to change settings on my Vodafone Gigabox router to get Getflix to work.

Expert Mode - Internet - DNS - set to Manually

Looks like the router was ignoring the DNS settings I had changed on my device until I set the above to "manually". (Blurb from my router: The DNS configuration is done automatically when you connect to the network. Alternatively you can manually configure your own DNS settings for your devices.)

remoteboy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117741954#Comment_117741954

I had the same issue with the Gigabox. Switching to Manual sorted it for me too.