# Using Plex Server with a VPN

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [March 27, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-plex-server-with-a-vpn/31548 "2013-03-27T07:31:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-plex-server-with-a-vpn/31548/14 "2013-05-03T17:26:20Z")

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> I've discovered that there is another way to get Plex to work with your VPN _if_ you don't require Plex traffic to flow through your VPN. It requires creating a static route for the web address myPlex uses to resolve your machine's IP, effectively allowing Plex to bypass your VPN and use the IP of your ISP instead.  
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> \*Edit
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> This seems to work if you add a static route in the routing table of your PMS machine from my.plexapp.com to your default gateway.
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> \*Edit 2
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> The static route to my.plexapp.com does NOT actually work as far as I can tell. What happens is that at boot, PMS connects to myPlex and maps to my ISP address and that IP sticks. It would be nice to know the IP or IP range that myPlex uses to resolve and publish PMS' IP so that static routing would work in this case. Devs?

can you supply directions for this? thank you!!

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