The solution to this problem is to use a VPN service that will give you an IP of the country of your choice.

I’ve now tried BlackVPN, a global OpenVPN service, located in the Netherlands.

It has VPN servers in 3 countries:

• USA
• UK
• Netherlands

You can either buy access to one of these countries (for 5 EUR per month) or to all of them (for 10 EUR per month).

You can access the service by using OpenVPN (that’s what I’m using and recommending) or PPTP.

See https://www.blackvpn.com/support/ for sample configurations for several platforms (Windows/Linux/MacOSX/iPhone…).

I’ve created a global account for 10 EUR and did some quick tests.

To check the speed of the OpenVPN, I’ve tried to download a Debian NetInst image (debian-506-amd64-netinst.iso). The file has a size of 132MiB.

Here are the results of my little speed test:

• Direct download (without active VPN): 795KiB/s (2:53 minutes)
• BlackVPN USA: 213KiB/s (14:42 minutes)
• BlackVPN UK: 594KiB/s (3:21 minutes)
• BlackVPN NL: 393KiB/s (7:06 minutes)

Of course, traffic through the VPN is slower than a direct connection, but I’m pretty impressed by the speed.
>200KiB/s (=1600KiBit/s) should be enough even for video streaming.

As I’m located in Germany, especially the UK/NL VPN servers are really fast.

If you like to try BlackVPN, you can use my Referral Code “BCFYSFP”.

Using this referral code, you will get 2 months VPN access as a free bonus (i.e. you pay for 1 month but get 3) and I will get one month for free.

Have fun!

For fearless and lazy people only:

http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_Squeeze#Install_scripts_for_lazy_people

Update 2010-06-06, Version 0.2:

prepare_squeeze_joggler.sh has a –usage parameter now (and many more parameters):

che@x2:~$ ./prepare_squeeze_joggler.sh --usage
prepare_squeeze_joggler.sh v0.2 2010-06-06
by Christian Erpelding aka flattermann aka che09

http://www.flattermann.net

Join #joggler on irc.freenode.net for help
See also http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_Squeeze
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Usage:
prepare_squeeze_joggler.sh [-o DIR] [--schroot NAME] [-d] [--r8168] [--debmirror URL] [--mythtv]

--outdir DIR, -o DIR   Output directory (defaults to /opt/squeeze-joggler)
--schroot NAME         Use schroot instead of chroot
                       A schroot called NAME must be defined in /etc/schroot/schroot.conf
                       (This option overrides --outdir!)
--delete, -d           Delete old directory
--r8168                Use r8168 ethernet driver instead of r8169
                       (for AO2JOGXN Jogglers)
--debmirror URL        Use URL as debian mirror
                       (e.g. --debmirror http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian)
--hostname NAME        Set hostname to NAME (defaults to 'joggler')
--locale NAME          Set locale to NAME (defaults to 'en_US')
--mythtv               Install MythTV frontend and EasyStroke
--squeezeplay          Install SqueezePlay (v7.6 beta from SVN)
--cellwriter           Install Cellwriter (OnScreenKeyboard)

Have fun!

http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_Squeeze

It’s working great with SqueezePlay and MythTV-frontend!

If you want to use MythTV, I can recommend EasyStroke to control it by gestures.