The Peruvian detail that shapes everything else
About one IPv4 address for every ten people
IPv4, the original internet address system, has run out in Latin America, and Peru has far fewer of those addresses for its population than Chile or Argentina. That background explains two things worth knowing before a Hulu test.
| Country | IPv4 addresses registered | People, 2025 | Addresses per person |
|---|
| Peru | About 3.25 million | About 34.6 million | About 0.09 — one for every ten or eleven people |
| Chile | About 9.6 million | About 19.9 million | About 0.49 — just under one for every two |
| Argentina | About 19.4 million | About 45.9 million | About 0.42 — one for every 2.4 people |
Argentina has about six times as many IPv4 addresses as Peru for about a third more people; Chile has three times as many for little more than half the population. There is no easy way to catch up: LACNIC, the regional registry, handed out its last free block on 19 August 2020, and it now projects waits of more than ten years for returned addresses.
So addresses get shared. LACNIC advises operators to run IPv6 alongside IPv4 and to use CGNAT — carrier-grade NAT, one public IPv4 address for many customers — as a temporary answer to the shortage. Two things follow for a Hulu test. The first is more IPv6, which is why the next section matters. The second concerns the U.S. side: Hulu lists an address “block listed because of previous anonymous proxy use” among the causes of its location error, and a crowded address carries the history of everyone on it — so the U.S. address you use should not be one more crowded one.
Public addresses can also change. USip’s Smart DNS, the method for televisions, recognises a home by its public IP address — so if your provider assigns a new one, it has to be registered with USip again.
A residential U.S. IP used by one household has a history of one household. That, not the country alone, is what separates it from the crowded addresses behind many connections.