unreliable VPS socks proxy ?

[McCloud]

I have a VPS in USA, use Putty to make the connection and then ProxyCap to tunnel all traffic via SOCKS 5 127.0.0.1.

It was working fine, until I've noticed one thing.. as I am in Germany right now, many of youtube videos are blocked. So I connected to my VPS as usual, but I was still unable to watch it. Therefore I checked my IP through a couple of sites. The weird thing is, most of the sites showed my actual location in Germany... however some showed the IP of the VPS in USA. Also a test from speedtest.net showed significantly slower speeds (as is usual for VPS). a

So I am quite puzzled now. Does anybody have experience with this ? What's the reason for this ? Is there a way to make it work the way it should be ?

Thanks for all your input.

[hcac]

Check on ip-adress.com for example if it doesn't show your real IP and it shows the IP of your VPS, but the same time some websites detect your proxy and show your real IP, then the problem is with ProxyCap.
Not actually a problem, probably it's just giving every website you visit a message (called headers in a HTTP request) containing your real IP. That's what some proxy clients do as usual... .
Also there are other ways, like your Gmail account to prove that you're from Germany, so check that out, too.

[McCloud]

hmm, that's weird. Now I tried again, and it works all good. Not sure what's happening.
Anyway, thank you for the info.