We shall see. ProtonVPN has some handy features that make it beneficial for me to route all traffic through.

A local university sells surplused towers for $40, so my last resort is to get ime of those and only run plex on that computer and not have a VPN on that one.

Different strokes for different folks, I run all traffic through a VPN.

Split tunneling wasnt quite working. I’ll spend time on it some day.

I paid for a lifetime subscription 6 years ago… would definitely say I got my $80 worth.

Only complaint is that the streaming my own media files doesnt work great with my VPN, but I so rarely need that, so I havent spent much effort trying to figure it out. It’s on my list of things to do though.