

The elapsed time was 13.612 milliseconds, which is impossible and strongly suggests that the server I was using was serving an American IP from central Europe. The day Netflix thought I was in Germany, I did manage to get one successful traceroute from a supposed connection in California to Vienna, Austria. Given this odd combination I tried running some ping and traceroute tests, but most of them timed out. HotSpot Shield did give me a few DNS servers in Germany that day, which likely contributed to Netflix’s confusion.

servers, for example, I got an American IP but Google thought I was in the UK-thus it redirected my browser to .uk-and Netflix thought I was in Germany. The first time I connected to HotSpot Shield’s U.S.
