Amazon’s Fire TV has quickly become one of the best ways to turn a dumb TV into a
smart TV.
The fire tv eco system is built entirely around amazon prime.
But what if, you want to watch american netflix on your fire stick, or even hulu, or prime
videos?
Well, don’t fret , .i’m vamsi from smartdnsproxy and here’s how you setup smartdnsproxy on
amazon fire stick or Fire TV
Head over to Smart DNS Proxy website (link in the description below) and create a free
account.
Smart DNS Proxy offers 14 day free trial, no credit card required.
Next you need to setup Smart DNS Proxy server on your fire stick.
But before we begin you need to find the IP address of your router.
Depending on what device you have access to there are different ways to go about it.
A link to detail guide will be in the description below.
But basically, to find Router IP on Windows, open cmd and type in ipconfig, and look for
the value next to default gateway.
It should be something like 192.168.1.1 or 192.68.0.1
For mac, type in route -n get default in the terminal
And if you have android or iOS, then simple use the fing app, it’s free and works fine.
Next, Change your Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick DNS server addresses
Start your Fire TV / Fire TV Stick.
Go to “Settings” (1) and select the “System” tab .
Select “Network”
Next we wanna change the WiFi setting, but to bring up that menu, we need to forget the
wifi network.
Choose your WIFI network and “Forget” it.
To do that you should press the button with three lines on it afterwards and press the
select button.
choose your WIFI network again.
You will be asked to introduce your password.
Enter your WI-FI password (5) and click on “Advanced”
You have to get an IP from the same IP range as a router.
To do that just use your router’s IP and change the last group of digits.
For example, if your router’s IP is 192.168.0.1 you should set your Fire TV / Fire TV Stick
IP address (7) to something like 192.168.0.200.
Basically, we are assigning a fixed or static IP address to your fire stick, make sure you
pick the last group that is not used by other devices.
If two devices on the network have same ip address, there might be network issues, therefore,
I suggest you pick a bigger number like 200, 220 etc.
In the “Default gateway field” enter the IP of your router, that we found out in the
beginning of this video.
Input 24 for the Network Prefix Length and Click Next
Now Select your Primary DNS Server and Enter the primary DNS server from the following
Smart DNS Proxy Service IP addresses and then choose Done.Side note : Select the closest
dns server to your physical location.
Select your Secondary DNS Server and Enter the secondary DNS server from the following
Smart DNS Service Proxy IP and then choose Done.
Use the second closest DNS server IP.
And that’s it click on connect.
There are couple of things you need to make sure for Amazon to see you as you’re in
US.
Go back to “Settings” menu and select “Time Zone”
Make sure you have a 1-click US address in your Amazon Account.
Also on Amazon.com go to Your Account > Manage Your Content and Devices > Country Settings
and set country to United States
Again restart your firestick, this will clear the existing cache.
Head over to Smart DNS Proxy website from your computer connected to same network or
even from your xbox.
And login, You should see a green check mark, next to DNS setup, if you’ve done everything
correctly,
Next, UPDATE your IP address.
So our system will check your IP address and add your new IP to our database
Once you see, all the 4 check marks, it means you have successfully setup Smart DNS Proxy
on your xbox.
If you do face any problems at , contact our support team.
We’ll be more than happy to help you.
Now, if you open netflix and search for the office, you see it’s available in your country.
Outro So, there you go, that’s how you setup smart
dns proxy on your amazon fire tv stick .although i highly recommend setting it up on your router
.That way you could watch it on any device .
Check out our other videos on netflix and how to set up for more informative content.
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watching.