Technology Rants

Enter To Win A Free MegaVideo Account

Megavideo.com is a popular youtube style video streaming website. If you are anything like me you usually don’t have time to watch a lot of TV. Between working, going to school, and doing what seems like a 100 things at once. Usually the only time to catch a  TV show is between 1 to 2am at night (the time when you get home from a bar).

If you been to surfthechannel.com and you have tryed to watch more that 72 mins of megavideo in 24hrs. Here are a couple of tips to bypass or quickly reset that timelimit.

Clear cookies and change your ip address.

Really the only way megavideo can track you is two way client side and server side tracking.

Internet Explorer

1. download firefox (why are you using internet explorer?)
2. continue below

Firefox.

1. Click tools -> Clear Private Data or press (ctrl + shift + del)
2. uncheck all the options except for cache and cookies
3. press Clear Private Data Now
4. unplug your router for about 60 seconds. and then plug it back in.

(You may have to unplug your router a few times to get a new IP address… )

You should be able to refresh you browser and continue watching your shows (for another 72mins). If for any reason this doesn’t work check to see if you have a static IP address from your ISP. This trick will only work if you have a dynamic IP address.

***After some research some people are reporting there is a second method.

This trick applies to all browsers.

1. Click on the video that you want to watch.
2. press play on the video
3. then pause the video and just let it buffer all the way
4. unplug your computer from the internet or disconnect it from your wireless network
5. watch your video. If the video was buffered all the way you can now watch the video with out any problems
6. when you want to watch a new video or surf the internet again, just reconnect your computer back to you wireless network

Give it a try

here is a link to How I Met Your Mother season 1, eps 1.