Do You Need a VPN to Use NetflixKing?

Short answer: no, you don't need a VPN to use NetflixKing. Here's why, and the one situation where you might still want one for other reasons.

Why a VPN isn't necessary here

VPNs come up with streaming mainly for one reason: geo-restricted catalogs, where a service shows different content — or isn't available at all — depending on which country you're connecting from. That's a real issue for some major streaming platforms, which license content on a country-by-country basis.

NetflixKing doesn't work that way. The catalog — 12,620+ live channels, 55,012+ movies, and 13,518+ series across 40 language shelves — is the same for every account regardless of location. There's no region-locked content to unlock and no geographic restriction to route around.

Will a VPN cause problems instead?

It can, actually. Routing your connection through a VPN adds a hop between your device and the internet, which can introduce extra latency — the opposite of what you want for smooth streaming. If you're already running a VPN for unrelated reasons and notice buffering, temporarily disabling it is a reasonable first troubleshooting step; see our buffering guide for the rest.

When you might still want one — for other reasons

• General privacy on public Wi-Fi — a VPN encrypts your traffic on networks you don't control, which is a reasonable habit independent of what you're streaming.
• ISP throttling — some internet providers slow down traffic to specific destinations during peak hours; a VPN can occasionally bypass this, though it's inconsistent and not guaranteed.

Neither of these is specific to NetflixKing — they're general-purpose reasons some people run a VPN all the time, unrelated to accessing any particular app's catalog.

The bottom line

If you were planning to set up a VPN specifically to use NetflixKing, you can skip that step — it won't unlock anything you don't already have access to, and it may slow things down. If you already use one for other reasons, there's no need to turn it off either, beyond the usual buffering-troubleshooting check.