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With Megavideo.com on the rise, there are more and more people looking for ways to bypass the 72 min video limit. Below I have listed 12 Alternatives to Megavideo.com. I have also included a review of each website, each review is based on usability uptime, and quality of popular links.

When looking for a TV show that you just missed some times its easiest to find the episode on its home network. Here are a couple of links to popular TV networks

1. Fox | popular shows include American Dad, Bones, House, Prison Break
2. CSB | popular shows include How I met your mother, NCIS, The Unit
3. NBC |
4. Spiketv.com | Popular shows include Deadliest Warrior and the ultimate fighter
5. Discovery.com | Popular shows include mythbusters
6. Travel Channel
7. USA Network
   

When the show you are looking for can’t be found on their home network you can probably find it on one of these linking sites.

1. TVshack.net | Tvshack has a one of the largest database of links and will link to the different videos sources embedded right into the website.
2. FanCast | Fancast has a large database of links. The site has a really good search function which will allow you to find the TV show you are trying to find in no time
3. TV.com | TV.com is a social network where you can talk about TV episodes. Their main focus isn’t around Video links, and their site isn’t as intuitive as other sites. But they do have a wide range of links.
4. Missedashow | Although it’s not the fastest site, it definite has a lot of links.
5. SurftheChannel | This is a great site when looking for recent airings of a TV show. Although I think the TV networks are catching on to this site, because some of the show I used to watch are starting to lose all the links they once had.

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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.