Amazon Fire TV VPN

captaincrowther · Jun 19, 2018

I've had a problem for the last 18 months, failing to get a VPN working properly on my Fire TV.

It's a 2nd gen. model, with the latest software version.

I have an account with PIA, but could not login using their APK, and i WAS using the right password and user name!

Recently tried the free Ultrasurf, which installed and connected, but was buggy, causing the Fire to freeze up.

Recently i paid for IPVanish, regarded as the most Fire friendly, and lo and behold, had the same issue with logging in!

Any theories or suggestions here folks?

I'm awaiting a response from IPVanish, but if anything like PIA, they will be stumped!

Can't decide if this is a software or firmware issue.

I could factory reset the Fire, but i'd like to avoid if poss.

I'm sure it shouldn't be this difficult!

bill001g · Jun 19, 2018

I did not even know that tv supported vpn. I have always done this by running the vpn on the router, the vpn clients for the routers seem to be the most stable. Your router would need to support vpn.

eibgrad · Jun 19, 2018

Looked a little deeper into this, and afaict, it doesn't support a VPN, at least not natively. Users are installing the VPN as an add-on, probably from the Fire app store.

Frankly, I find this to be the wrong approach. It means that at anytime Amazon could detect the VPN and either break it, or refuse to allow access to its content w/ the VPN active. That exactly what happens on my old ipod touch. If I run a VPN there, some services will simply refuse to run. Some will even report, in so many words, "turn off your VPN first".

And it makes sense. The content providers have no particular interest in region hopping by their customers. That's why the VPN more properly belongs OFF the Fire TV, where it can't be detected (router, a PC, etc.).

anoori9000 · Jun 20, 2018

I have ipvanish and it works perfectly fine on my firestick. Did you enable developer options and apps from unknown sources (or something along those lines). Try factory resetting the fire tv.

captaincrowther · Jun 20, 2018

All things considered i think i'll go the router route, thanks all.

citionix · Jul 2, 2018

Yeah, if your TV doesn't support VPNs natively then the only way is to set it up on your router. I was using the router method too until Nord released a native app.

captaincrowther · Jul 3, 2018

citionix :

captaincrowther · Jul 3, 2018

Yes got the NordVPN apk now too, works like a dream, problem solved.

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