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Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? But that's fine with the OP, that's why he is using his friends br

Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? But that's fine with the OP, that's why he is using his friends broadband anyway. The US catalog is what you want.

giancarlostoro 10y ago
I imagine he would want to use his friends account too.
ChuckMcM 10y ago
It probably is fine, unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region. As far as Netflix is concerned, if you pay in the US and you stream from a US IP address, you're from the US region. But the question for the OP is, is that enough? As far as I can tell Netflix doesn't care at all about people who only stream from one region but they do care about people who stream from multiple regions.
- lol768 10y ago
  > unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region Not sure there's anything good that's UK-only. It's usually the other way around with all the good shows being available in the US.
Freak_NL 10y ago
> Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? From what I understand you get to watch the content of the region you are in at the moment. So on holiday you lose access to your home catalogue, but actually gain access to the catalogue of the country you are in at that moment. This seems to be part of how these region limited contracts with the content owners work. The two alternatives are not being able to use Netflix at all when you are abroad, or having access only to the catalogue of the country you are paying the bills from, regardless of where you physically are. Netflix appears to be heavily focusing on their own content to prevent this whole problem, but that does mean that the option of being able to pick whatever you want (legally) from a large back-catalogue is now blocked.
- twoodfin 10y ago
  That matches my experience, at least in recent trips to the UK, Belgium & Germany. Netflix did think I was using a VPN and blocked me from one rural German hotel, though.
dagw 10y ago
I have Swedish Netflix and when I travel I get the catalog of whatever country I happen to be in.
Broken_Hippo 10y ago
The IP is the important bit. Source: I had a bit of netflix subscription when I moved to Norway. Paid with US billing. Not everything was available when I switched countries.

giancarlostoro 10y ago

I imagine he would want to use his friends account too.

ChuckMcM 10y ago

It probably is fine, unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region. As far as Netflix is concerned, if you pay in the US and you stream from a US IP address, you're from the US region. But the question for the OP is, is that enough? As far as I can tell Netflix doesn't care at all about people who only stream from one region but they do care about people who stream from multiple regions.

lol768 10y ago
> unless he wants to watch something that is only available in his local, non-US, region Not sure there's anything good that's UK-only. It's usually the other way around with all the good shows being available in the US.

Freak_NL 10y ago

> Huh? If you have US billing, you can only watch the US catalog, and you need a US IP, right? From what I understand you get to watch the content of the region you are in at the moment. So on holiday you lose access to your home catalogue, but actually gain access to the catalogue of the country you are in at that moment. This seems to be part of how these region limited contracts with the content owners work. The two alternatives are not being able to use Netflix at all when you are abroad, or having access only to the catalogue of the country you are paying the bills from, regardless of where you physically are. Netflix appears to be heavily focusing on their own content to prevent this whole problem, but that does mean that the option of being able to pick whatever you want (legally) from a large back-catalogue is now blocked.

twoodfin 10y ago
That matches my experience, at least in recent trips to the UK, Belgium & Germany. Netflix did think I was using a VPN and blocked me from one rural German hotel, though.

dagw 10y ago

I have Swedish Netflix and when I travel I get the catalog of whatever country I happen to be in.

Broken_Hippo 10y ago

The IP is the important bit. Source: I had a bit of netflix subscription when I moved to Norway. Paid with US billing. Not everything was available when I switched countries.