Cloudflare WARP via Dante SOCKS5: Unlocking Netflix Catalogs Abroad

When you find yourself abroad — on vacation, a business trip, or after relocating — you may suddenly discover that your usual Netflix library has “shrunk.” Some series and movies disappear, others appear, and certain premieres are released only in the US or the UK. The reason is regional licensing: Netflix catalogs differ from country to country, so what’s available in London or New York may be missing in Moscow, Belgrade, or Berlin.

On forums and blogs the most common advice is to use a “special VPN for Netflix.” But this approach has obvious problems: commercial VPN services operate on limited IP pools, which quickly end up in databases of “suspicious addresses” and get blocked. Even worse, if you simply route the Netflix client through a random proxy or VPS in a datacenter, those IPs are easy to identify by ASN, reverse DNS, or usage history — and get blacklisted even faster.

Cloudflare WARP works differently. Its official purpose is to improve privacy and speed up connections, not to provide geolocation switching. As a result, streaming platforms usually don’t block WARP: they don’t see it as a “geo-bypass service,” and its IP addresses look like regular residential ones, not datacenter ranges.

Out of the box, WARP always connects to the nearest Cloudflare node, effectively “placing” you in your current country. But if you route WARP traffic through a SOCKS5 proxy (such as Dante) hosted in the US or UK, that proxy becomes the point of entry. For WARP, it looks like you’re connecting from the proxy’s IP, so it attaches you to its infrastructure in that country. The end result: Netflix believes you’re in the US or UK and shows you the respective catalog. In other words, by using a proxy, you can “enter” WARP already in the country you need — rather than the one you are physically in.

In the previous post we described how to configure a minimal and locked-down Dante SOCKS5 proxy that only forwards UDP traffic to Cloudflare WARP. The goal was to provide a secure and predictable setup, useful as a building block for more advanced scenarios. Now let’s take the next step: obtaining a WARP WireGuard configuration and using it with WireSock Secure Connect. This will allow us to integrate the Dante proxy into a real client setup, so the traffic path looks like this:

WireSock Secure Connect (WireGuard client) 
        → Dante SOCKS5 proxy (locked-down UDP) 
                → Cloudflare WARP infrastructure

Generating a WARP Configuration

We’ll use wgcf to register a WARP account and generate a WireGuard configuration:

wgcf register
wgcf generate

This produces a standard WireGuard config (wgcf-profile.conf) that can be imported into WireSock Secure Connect.

Configuring WireSock Secure Connect

1. Import the wgcf WireGuard configuration.
2. Specify the Dante SOCKS5 proxy in the settings (server IP, port 1080, username/password created earlier).
3. Connect. Your WireSock client now routes WARP traffic through the proxy, and the exit IP corresponds to your VPS country (US/UK).

Netflix Testing

Before diving into content, it’s worth verifying that your traffic is actually exiting through the correct country. A few quick checks can save time troubleshooting:

1. Check your IP location
   Visit https://whatismyipaddress.com (or any GeoIP lookup service) to confirm that your public IP matches the VPS country (US/UK).
2. Run a speed/latency test on Fast.com
   Netflix operates Fast.com as its own bandwidth testing service. Because it uses the same CDN infrastructure as Netflix streaming, this is a reliable way to confirm that your traffic is going through the correct Netflix edge in the region you selected. If Fast.com shows the expected location and stable throughput, Netflix playback should work without buffering.
3. Test Netflix in a clean session
   Open Netflix in a private/incognito browser window (or clear cookies) to avoid cached region data.
   • If the setup is correct, you should immediately notice region-specific rows on the homepage.
   • For example, search for a title that is only available in the US catalog to confirm success.
4. Optional: test on multiple devices
   If you’re sharing via Mobile Hotspot, connect your TV or console and repeat the Fast.com and Netflix tests to ensure all devices inherit the correct location.

With these steps, you’ll have both objective confirmation (IP + Fast.com) and functional validation (region-specific Netflix titles) that the setup is working as intended.

Sharing the Connection (Mobile Hotspot)

WireSock Secure Connect works seamlessly with Windows Mobile Hotspot, which makes it easy to extend this setup beyond your laptop. Instead of configuring every device individually, you can turn your laptop into a gateway for your entire home or travel setup.

Here’s how it works in practice:

1. Run WireSock on your laptop with the WARP configuration (from wgcf) and the Dante SOCKS5 proxy (your VPS in the US or UK).
2. Enable Mobile Hotspot in Windows. This creates a Wi-Fi network that other devices can join.
3. Connect your Smart TV, game console, streaming stick, or phone to the hotspot.

From the perspective of Netflix (or any other streaming service), every device connected to your hotspot is now accessing the internet through WARP over Dante. That means:

• All devices see the Netflix catalog of your chosen country (US, UK, or whichever location your VPS is in).
• You don’t need to install or configure additional VPN clients on your TV or console — they just connect via Wi-Fi.
• This setup works especially well when traveling, since you can carry a small laptop, spin up a VPS in the desired region, and instantly recreate your “home” Netflix environment on any screen.

In effect, your laptop becomes a portable regional gateway that can serve multiple devices simultaneously.

Conclusion

Using Dante SOCKS5 + Cloudflare WARP + WireSock Secure Connect, you can reliably access Netflix US/UK catalogs while abroad. Unlike ordinary VPN services or datacenter proxies, this approach leverages Cloudflare’s residential-like IP space, which is not systematically blocked by streaming services.

An added bonus is resilience against traffic inspection: WireGuard packets encapsulated in SOCKS5 are significantly harder to fingerprint with DPI, making this setup both practical and robust.