Smart DNS Proxy

upandcumming

I think plenty of people around were using these before during their testing stage and that's how I managed to get the email. They have a Valentine's Day sale on with offers of up to 70% off for a 24 month sub.
Anyway, you have to click the link on the email so I have linked the online version of the email.
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I understand that it looks dangerous, but I assure you its not!

nava

upandcumming wrote: »

I think plenty of people around were using these before during their testing stage and that's how I managed to get the email. They have a Valentine's Day sale on with offers of up to 70% off for a 24 month sub.
Anyway, you have to click the link on the email so I have linked the online version of the email.
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I understand that it looks dangerous, but I assure you its not!

I was thinking to sing up if it was cheap as it could come handy but looks like it's a very missleading discount, the 70% looks like it's if you multiply the monthly rate by 24 months and do the discount from that price, not from the 24monts rate.

Without link prices are



Discounted price

markc1184

I'm already on a 12 month sub with these. I wonder if I was to purchase the 24 month sub would it add on at the end or override my 12 month sub?

messinkiapina

Does anyone know if this service allows for anonymous surfing, kind of like a vpn does?

It does say the following on their website, but not sure if that means it provides the same security as a vpn?

All Smart DNS Proxy servers are secured and encrypted. There is also no logs in our network so all your queries are anonymous. [\quote]

Mountjoy Mugger

I just bit the bullet.

However, it's a recurrent payment plan - you pay the same price every two years.
I didn't spot that before I signed up. Now, to figure out how to stop that lark...

EDIT: I suppose I'll just use the cancel option

evolutionqy7

Hmm I set it up there now, purely to access US Netflix, but the quality of the Video doesnt seem to be very good.

My phone also refused to connect to WiFi till network quality improved lol.

Cherry_Cola

This stopped working on my fire tv over the past few weeks and haven't been able to get it sorted

messinkiapina

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

This stopped working on my fire tv over the past few weeks and haven't been able to get it sorted

Maybe your ip address has changed?

From their website....

Remember whenever your Modem/Router IP changes, our service will stop working for you. You will need to LOGIN to Smart DNS Proxy and UPDATE your IP address. So our system will check your IP address and add your new IP to our database. Then you will be able to continue using our service. You can take this step from any pc connected to your modem/router. If this is the first time you setup, we also suggest you to login with your PC to our site from the same Wired/Wireless network to show our system your IP address.

teflon

Is it any good? Any buffering issues?

Cherry_Cola

messinkiapina wrote: »

Maybe your ip address has changed?

Tried all that unfortunately, no luck with it.

itsallok

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Hmm I set it up there now, purely to access US Netflix, but the quality of the Video doesnt seem to be very good.

My phone also refused to connect to WiFi till network quality improved lol.

Honestly, the quality of video is nothing to do with the Smart DNS service, simply as it is only the DNS settings that have changed. If it was a full VPN (where the video travels through a server on another continent, for example) it could be claimed that was affecting the video quality.

itsallok

upandcumming wrote: »

I think plenty of people around were using these before during their testing stage and that's how I managed to get the email. They have a Valentine's Day sale on with offers of up to 70% off for a 24 month sub.
Anyway, you have to click the link on the email so I have linked the online version of the email.


I can vouch for this service, very good indeed. Not really a bargain as such, it is on offer every couple of weeks at this price. It is a great price though, especially if you don't require a full VPN.

I use mine on a WD TV Play device, and watch US Netflix almost every evening instead of Sky. Don't expect this to work on a Roku player, as there is no possibility to change the DNS on Roku.

itsallok

I can vouch for this service, very good indeed. Not really a bargain as such, it is on offer every couple of weeks at this price. It is a great price though, especially if you don't require a full VPN.

I use mine on a WD TV Play device, and watch US Netflix almost every evening instead of Sky. Don't expect this to work on a Roku player, as there is no possibility to change the DNS on Roku.

FobleAsNuck

itsallok wrote: »

upandcumming wrote: »

Don't expect this to work on a Roku player, as there is no possibility to change the DNS on Roku.

yes there is, just block the Google's DNS IPs

TireeTerror

After a few seconds I thought to myself "hmmmm that link looks suspicious, is he getting paid for this?" and I went onto their site and looked and found out its basically a shill to earn himself commission. tut tut

https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/Affiliates

irelandspurs

I've been using these for years, only thing is my ip updates everyday so whenever you go on a site like bbciplayer for the first time that day it will ask you to activate it again which takes 5 seconds max.

T-b0n3

I signed up to this last night, and I have used it before. But I can't see any information on the website about weather you can use multiple devices? ie Laptop/PC/Phone, I assume one subscription covers me for all?

Thanks

irelandspurs

T-b0n3 wrote: »

I signed up to this last night, and I have used it before. But I can't see any information on the website about weather you can use multiple devices? ie Laptop/PC/Phone, I assume one subscription covers me for all?

Thanks

yes you can I use my login on neighbours laptops fine.

GY A1

irelandspurs wrote: »

I've been using these for years, only thing is my ip updates everyday so whenever you go on a site like bbciplayer for the first time that day it will ask you to activate it again which takes 5 seconds max.

does it not have an automatic updater or can it update the ip by the router

keithclancy

itsallok wrote: »

Honestly, the quality of video is nothing to do with the Smart DNS service, simply as it is only the DNS settings that have changed. If it was a full VPN (where the video travels through a server on another continent, for example) it could be claimed that was affecting the video quality.

No its still a proxy, just the DNS Server is telling the machine which proxy to use.

eioneill

Cheers OP. Signed up for yearly sub with these. Been using for Netflix on Samsung smart tv and it's perfect.

upandcumming

TireeTerror wrote: »

After a few seconds I thought to myself "hmmmm that link looks suspicious, is he getting paid for this?" and I went onto their site and looked and found out its basically a shill to earn himself commission. tut tut

https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/Affiliates

Tut tut yourself.
The link is one the I got in the email that was

http://1u6t.mj.am/nl/1u6t/sqw3z.html?a=eqpGrh&b=54af6129&c=1u6t&d=e4525527&e=de2fd340&email=**********%40****.ie

I removed all the other stuff and put in:

http://1u6t.mj.am/nl/1u6t/sqw3z.html

And you had bothered to check, you'd see what an affiliate link looks like from this site:

https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/?afid=79f95e688274

But don't let that get in the way detective.

itsallok

keithclancy wrote: »

No its still a proxy, just the DNS Server is telling the machine which proxy to use.

If you re-read my post- I didn't mention proxy. That it is a proxy is taken for granted. What I said was that the full video stream does not need to travel through the server like in the case of a VPN. Therefore, the buffering has nothing to do with the service.

TireeTerror

upandcumming wrote: »

Tut tut yourself.
The link is one the I got in the email that was

http://1u6t.mj.am/nl/1u6t/sqw3z.html?a=eqpGrh&b=54af6129&c=1u6t&d=e4525527&e=de2fd340&email=**********%40****.ie

I removed all the other stuff and put in:

http://1u6t.mj.am/nl/1u6t/sqw3z.html

And you had bothered to check, you'd see what an affiliate link looks like from this site:

https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/?afid=79f95e688274

But don't let that get in the way detective.

I didn't pass my detective exam, I flunked. At least I'm consistent.

keithclancy

itsallok wrote: »

If you re-read my post- I didn't mention proxy. That it is a proxy is taken for granted. What I said was that the full video stream does not need to travel through the server like in the case of a VPN. Therefore, the buffering has nothing to do with the service.

It does. The DNS server redirects the url for the video stream to a proxy run by SmartDNS.

If you netstat the streams you can see iPlayer for example is not coming in via an IP address owned by the BBC.

Congestion can still be a problem if the proxy server it redirects you to is overloaded.