The Amazon Fire TV Stick, or Firestick is an awesome device. It’s cheap and easy to use, you can turn your TV into many streaming website like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix，Hulu，Amazon Prime Video，BBC iPlayer. Unfortunately, much of them is geo-locked, meaning it can only be accessed from specific countries.Then what you need is VPN service, so you can change your GEO as what you wish. Then all the content will be open for you.
Why you need VPN on Firestick?What’s the benefit of VPN on Firestick?
- Unblock geo
- Hide your private
- Safer Public Wi-Fi
- Avoid online monitoring
What VPN service you can install on Firestick?
There are many VPNs can be installed on your Firestick, include free VPN and paid VPN. But I do not suggest you install free VPN, because they will showing you much advertising, the speed of free VPN is not better than paid VPN, and maybe they will sold your private information. In all, User experience of freeVPN is very bad.
Fire TV doesn’t have access to Google Play in order to download VPN, but you can directly download them from Amazon’s official app store on your Fire TV. Though all them are free install, you need paid money to subscribe for it.
In Amazon’s official app store, you can find some popular and fast VPNs:
You can find 1500+ servers of ExpressVPN in 94 countries. And best of all is that ExpressVPN is a so famous VPN service, you can see it in much more webs.
You will like it for the 30 days money back guarantee, friends recommend, friendly after-sales service, 3 concurrent connections.
Here is an article about the ExpressVPN experience, it will show you more about it.
This is how looks ExpressVPN in Firestick.
You can see that IPVanish is the top 1 in Firestick app list.
| Based in | United States |
| No. of countries | 60+ |
| No. of servers | 500+ |
| No. of IPs | 40000+ |
| Price | $10.00/month-17%
$8.99/month(3 month)-25% $6.49/month(12month)-46% |
IPVanish also provide 7 Days Money Back Guarantee, 5 Simultaneous Connections, Unlimited P2P traffic, Unlimited Switch server and Unlimited bandwidth. About the routers They offer best-effort support for DD-WRT and Tomato flashed routers only.
PureVPN(78% discount)
PureVPN offer OpenVPN, L2TP/IPSec, PPTP, SSTP, and IKEv2 for almost all kinds of devices. The first reason we recommend this company to you is their cheap price, $2.49 per month,that is the cheapest VPN service I have seen.That does not mean that pure VPN is not a good one,you can see pureVPN review in our website.
| Based in | Hong Kong |
| No. of countries | 141 |
| No. of servers | 500+ |
| No. of IPs | 80000+ |
| Price | $9.99/month-16%
$7.99/month(6 month)-33% $2.49/month(24 month)-79% |
NordVPN(77% discount)
NordVPN offer VPN service in 2012. But they started as an Internet security company in Panama in 2008. It’s a famous VPN service provider too. Panama has no data retention directives, so that they can maintain their “no-logs” policy to protect customers’ privacy.
Now NordVPN has 2000+ servers in the world as ExpressVPN. But NordVPN offer you 6 Simultaneous connections, it’s very convenient with that. Double VPN encryption servers with 256bit encryption strength can take more safety to us.LiveChat is so good for us when we are confused.
Here you can see more difference between ExpressVPN and NordVPN：
All these VPNs can bring you good audio-visual enjoyment, meanwhile they will protect your private from being tracked, and they can encrypt your network. They also offer you friendly customer support, when you are in trouble, you can ask them for help, customer support is important and it is always gets neglected.
And you can try some other VPNs, like Private Internet Access, Hide My Ass, Windscribe, Ivacy. Some of them offer you free test account.
How to install VPN on Firestick?
That’s why I told you friendly customer support is important. Actually, Amazon Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks run on a fork of the Android operating system, you can do the same thing as you install APP on your Android phone. Find the VPN you need in Amazon’s app store, download and install, input your account and password, then sign in.
Firestick VPN run on your TV is also looks like it run on Android. Select server and connect, then you can enjoy the free network. When you access VPN server, You can goto https://dnsleaktest.com to see if it is working.
If you want to do some advanced setting, you can contact customer support. This tells you the importance of customer support once again.
These are some videos about how to install VPN on your Firestick:
https://www.expressvpn.com/best-vpn-fire-tv
https://www.purevpn.com/vpn-for-firestick
https://www.addictivetips.com/vpn/install-nordvpn-firestick/
https://www.ipvanish.com/best-vpn-fire-stick/
Certain apps and streaming sources need more setting when you want to unblock your GEO with Firestick VPN:
- Change DNS settings on Fire TV
- Change your time zone on Fire TV
- Change your Amazon account to desired country