Private internet access; NEW EXEMPTION METHOD

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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About 7500 Miles for me, understand the crossroads. It works fine for me, lucky me.

Constant speed of 34Mb/s down and 17Mb/s up

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Rural West Virginia is FARTHER from Vancouver than Canberra - technologically speakingā€¦ a crow flying that route would die of old ageā€¦lol

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Do the Crows there fly via Antarctica in North America, I though Australia Internet was poor on world standards. They have faster Internet speeds in Alice Springs.

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To Washington DC I get the full 120/16
To Vancouver I get 40/3

Come to think of it - I might be going through Canberra to get to Vancouver.

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I will write to the Beta team for instructions for Windows 10, will post there reply

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Are Toronto and Montreal the same

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Pretty much.

Iā€™ll try it here and there. Itā€™s not unusual to experience ā€˜hic-cupsā€™ at times, but one would assume The Nationā€™s Capital would rate a Hub supporting port forwarding - Iā€™m sure you think about that all the time.

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Maybe Berlin or even Frankfurt be better.

Sent message to the Beta team at PIA for instructions for windows.

List of Port forwarding servers with PIA

CA Toronto
CA Montreal
CA Vancouver
Czech Republic
DE Berlin
DE Frankfurt
France
Israel
Romania
Spain
Switzerland
Sweden
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Specifically for Plex. Nothing else burst into flames and flies into a mountain with PIA on.

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Yes for Plex Media Server

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To answer the obvious about Port Forwarding Servers.

This would be the same In Australia and UK.

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Well, Iā€™d buy that thought process if Plex was downloading torrents, but Iā€™ve kept my eye on it and to date itā€™s not engaged in any of that nefarious activity.

I have no problem downloading torrents using PIA connecting to my favorite, nearby HUB right here in the sunny US of A. I donā€™t need a forwarded port for that.

Butā€¦ of courseā€¦ the fine print in some law probably has them by the caJonnies and there we are.

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I found this in a PIA forum:

Hello everyone! Nick from QA here.

Our split tunnel feature is pretty comprehensive, and itā€™s impossible for us to test it against every single app in existence in house. Iā€™d like to humbly ask you all to post any problems and/or workarounds on this thread. Also, since Linux binaries can hide in unexpected places, post the ones you find here, too.

To get things started:

Windows:

  • Localhost bug - any app which listens on localhost has to be accessed by your private IP address, rather than localhost or 127.0.0.1.

  • Plex does not work with split tunnel. To access your Plex server remotely, TURN OFF split tunnel and forward a port manually through your router. On your router, choose the port you specify in the Plex UI for the remote side and 32400 for the local side. The Plex UI will report that your server is not accessible remotely, but you will still be able to reach it from a remote device. To access from a remote web browser, enter http://<ISP IP>:<Remote Port> .

  • The Blizzard app update agent fails to connect, rendering the whole app unusable

  • Only TCP or UDP traffic may be excluded. Other protocols, such as ICMP, must route over the VPN

macOS:

  • Only .app files can be excluded; naked binaries will not be excluded through split tunnel
  • Only TCP or UDP traffic may be excluded. Other protocols, such as ICMP, must route over the VPN

Linux:

  • Server apps, such as Plex, Netcat, Jellyfin, etc do not exclude. A fix is pending.

  • Hidden directories cannot be accessed through the file selection GUI and must be typed into the file name bar manually

  • Flatpak apps cannot be excluded one-by-one; to exclude one, it is necessary to exclude Flatpak entirely, which resides in /usr/bin/flatpak .

All platforms:

  • Excluding Steam doesnā€™t necessarily exclude games launched from Steam. The behavior is bound to be slightly different per-platform, but Steam has a lot of moving parts and things may not work as expected.

Binary file locations on Linux:

Many Linux apps are run via .desktop files, links, or shell scripts. Only excluding the actual running binary file will allow a given app through the split tunnel. Most binaries are located in /bin , /usr/bin , /sbin , and /usr/sbin . To find them, run this command from the terminal: readlink /proc/$(pgrep <app name> | head -1)/exe . Exclude the exact file location returned. Snap packages can be found under the /snap directory, and .appimage files can be excluded directly.

Here are some examples of strange locations on Linux:

Chrome: /opt/google/chrome/chrome
Firefox: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
Opera: /usr/lib/opera/opera
Chromium: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium
Brave: /usr/lib/brave/brave
Thunderbird: /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
Steam: ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/Steam
Steamwebhelper: ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper
Hexchat: /usr/bin/hexchat
Discord: /opt/discord/Discord

This is a moving target, so please post any issues and/or workarounds you encounter on this thread. Thank you for participating.

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That is both interesting and overwhelming.

Iā€™m still firmly planted in PITA and more trouble than itā€™s worth to maintain a green check while the VPN is on.

Aunt Gladys already knows if there aint any lights on, check back laterā€¦lol

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