# Plex and express VPN

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-express-vpn/397577>\
**Category:** Remote Access\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-express-vpn/397577 "2019-04-08T20:15:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-and-express-vpn/397577/7 "2019-05-06T16:08:37Z")

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> [@VPN with Plex Media Server](https://forums.plex.tv/t/vpn-with-plex-media-server/408349):
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> Server Version#: Version 1.15.5.994 Player Version#: Doesn’t matter Hi, I’m having troubles with the Plex Media Server. Normally I’d start the PMS without VPN turned on. PMS will use your normal IP address to configure the server. After that I’d turn on my VPN client and could do all things normally. Now, since a few weeks, for some kind of reason PMS will check the IP address after a few minutes and change it. This is a problem, because at that time it will change the IP address tot the VPN…

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