Your connection
If a site told you that you seem to be using a VPN, a proxy or a private relay, this page explains what that means and shows you exactly what we can see.
What we can see about you
Read from this visit only. We cannot see your name, your device, or anything you do on other sites.
Your connection is coming from a server network.
Your internet traffic is reaching us from a server company called Amazon.com, Inc., rather than from a home broadband line or a mobile network. An ordinary web user is not connected to a company like that unless something is relaying their traffic — a VPN, a proxy, or a privacy feature built into their phone or browser.
We cannot tell you which VPN product you are using, and we do not try. We only see the company whose servers passed your traffic to us.
- Your address
- 216.73.217.32
- Operated by
- Amazon.com, Inc.
- Appears to be in
- Columbus, United States
- We class this as
- a server network
What these words mean
- A private relay
- A privacy feature built into a phone, computer or browser. It hides your address from the sites you visit by passing your traffic through two companies, so neither of them knows both who you are and what you are looking at. Apple's iCloud Private Relay is the common one — it comes on automatically with an iCloud+ subscription, and most people using it have never heard of it. Cloudflare WARP and Google One's VPN work in a similar way. We do not block these.
- A VPN
- Software you install that sends your traffic through a company's server, usually in another country, before it reaches the site. People use them for privacy, for work, and to appear to be somewhere they are not. A few clubs refuse purchases and playback over a VPN, because sports rights are sold country by country and a VPN hides which country you are in.
- A proxy
- The same idea as a VPN, usually set up in your browser rather than across the whole device. Sometimes an employer or a school has put one in place without telling you.
- A server network, or data centre
- Companies like M247, Clouvider or Cloudflare rent out computers in data centres. Home broadband and mobile networks belong to companies like BT, Sky, Virgin, EE or Vodafone. If your traffic arrives from the first kind rather than the second, something is relaying it — that is the whole basis of the detection, and it is why we can say that something is in the way without being able to say what you are using.
If a stream will not play
- On an iPhone or iPad: open Settings, tap your name at the top, then iCloud, then Private Relay. You can turn it off for one website without turning it off everywhere — while you are on the site, tap the aA or page settings icon in Safari's address bar and choose to show your IP address.
- On a Mac: open System Settings, click your name, then iCloud, then Private Relay, and turn it off.
- If you use a VPN: disconnect it, then reload the page. Some VPNs keep running in the background after you close the window, so check the app rather than assuming.
- Then reload this page to see whether what we detect has changed. If it still looks the same, the relay or VPN is still running.
Still stuck? The how to watch guide covers the other common causes, and the FAQ answers most of the rest.