How can I get a US IP address?
Also asked as: How do I get an American IP address for free? · How do I connect to a US VPN server?
Direct answer
Connect to a VPN server located in the United States. Install VPNmine on your desktop, phone, TV or browser, sign in or skip, and choose United States from the server list. The app opens an encrypted tunnel to VPNmine's New York server and every site you open sees a US address. It is free, with no ads and no card.
The steps
Install VPNmine on your desktop, phone, TV or browser, sign in or skip, and pick United States from the server list. The app opens a WireGuard tunnel to the New York server, and every site you open afterwards sees that server's address instead of yours. To confirm, open the IP checker on this site with the tunnel up: it should report United States.
What a US address does and does not get you
Sites and services see a United States visitor, so anything that routes, prices or gates by country treats you as one. It does not defeat account-based identification — sign in and the service knows who you are regardless — and large streaming platforms flag address ranges registered to hosting companies, so treat catalogue access as something to test rather than assume.
Why New York
The New York metro is one end of nearly every transatlantic cable in service and among the most densely peered places on the internet, so it is usually the lowest-latency US exit from Europe and from the eastern United States. From the West Coast expect roughly 65 to 80 ms of added latency; from London roughly 70 to 90 ms.
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