How to Watch Sky Go in the United States

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Sky Go is British TV. The online streaming package Sky Go provide is unsurpassed for watching British TV online. However, if you are an expat abroad, a student overseas or on vacation in Spain outside the UK. You will notice that Sky Go does give you a regional error about your current location being blocked. In order to bypass regional restrictions you have to spoof/fake your location. In this simple how to I will show you how to unblock and watch Sky Go abroad using VPN or Smart DNS Proxies.

How to Unblock Sky Go in the U.S. – Intro

Sky Go does provide a great range of channels, and it supports a wide array of devices, and you do NOT need a Sky+ account to get a Sky Go account. To unblock Sky Go abroad you have to use one of the two methods below. Namely VPN and Smart DNS Proxies. Each of these methods have it’s merits but there are quite a few differences which are explained.

First this is a list of some of the supported Sky Go channels :

  • Channel 4        

  • Sky 1        

  • SyFy        

  • ComedyCentral        

  • Fox        

  • TLC        

  • MTV        

  • More 4         

  • Sky Disney        

  • Sky Action        

  • Film 4        

  • Sky Sports 1/2/3/4        

  • Sky Drama        

  • Eurosport        

  • Discovery        

  • Animal Planet        

  • Nat Geo        

  • Sky Premiere        

  • Sky Family        

  • History        

  • Cartoon Network        

  • Disney XD/Channel/Junior        

  • Cartoon Network        

  • Sky Showcase        

  • Nickelodeon        

The channels above cover anything from Premier League, FIFA World Cup and Family entertainment.


How to Watch Sky Go Abroad – VPN

VPN refers to Virtual Private network. It does send your Internet traffic to a new server to spoof your location. In this instance you a VPN service with UK servers. This way the Sky Go servers would assume you are physically in the UK. A few more notable features of VPN are listed below:

  • All Internet traffic is encrypted. Your traffic cant be interrupted or inspected.

  • US content is also available if you do use a USA VPN server. I.e. Hulu Plus, Netflix, WWE Network, etc.

  • VPN is resistant to restrictions applied by ISPs that can affect Smart DNS.

  • No matter what VPN providers say, even the best VPNs will bring your Internet speed down by 10%.

  • VPN does work on all Sky Go supported devices. Since a lot of devices do not support VPN by default. You will need a VPN enabled router if you do wish to use VPN on other devices.

If you need a VPN, our suggestion is FlyVPN. Get started with FlyVPN's VPN for Windows.

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