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Accessing Korean streaming services from abroad

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Please note

Version 4.6.6 of the Mudfish WebExtension introduced a redesigned menu that lets you route only selected sites through Mudfish without editing PAC scripts as described below.

Website routing settings

Upgrade to the latest extension version to use this feature. You can download the extension at https://mudfish.net/download.

When living abroad, you may find that Korean streaming services block access based on your location. Using a VPN for all traffic can also cause buffering because of bandwidth limits. This tip provides a PAC script for the Mudfish browser extension that bypasses these restrictions without slowing down the stream.

In this example, only the requests related to location restrictions go through Mudfish. The stream itself uses your regular Internet connection.

Viewing browser extension logs

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When using the Mudfish browser extension, you may encounter unexpected problems whose cause is unclear and need help from an administrator.

The extension's logs can help narrow down the problem. This article explains how to access them.

A common mistake when filtering the node list

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The Mudfish program has a "Setup → Nodes" menu that can sometimes cause confusion. Consider this example:

  • A user in South Korea plays World of Tanks and wants to connect to its Europe (Germany) game server.
  • The user selects the DE Europe (Germany - Lightsail) node under "Setup → Nodes" and continues.

To choose the node that carries the game's traffic, select it in the World of Tanks item settings. The node list filter only controls which nodes are available to choose from.

How to change a NIC's metric

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Sometimes Mudfish does not work correctly even with Full VPN mode enabled for a basic functionality test.

Problem reports occasionally show that this is caused by a network adapter's metric. This article explains how Windows users can change the metric of a NIC (Network Interface Card).

Estimate your ping without installing Mudfish

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On the Mudfish Forums, we often receive this question:

Will Mudfish really lower my ping? If so, by how much?

This used to be difficult to answer for several reasons:

  • We did not know the RTT (round-trip time) between the user's computer and the roughly 500 Mudfish nodes.
  • We did not have an internal service for quickly estimating ping.

As a result, we often suggested installing Mudfish and testing it directly. That was easy advice to give, but it was not especially helpful to someone trying Mudfish for the first time.

Introducing the WFP driver

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This post introduces the WFP (Windows Filtering Platform) driver added in Mudfish v4.5.1. The questions below explain why it was added and where to use it, without going into implementation details.