24 hours of PureVPN - Thoughts

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I’ve made an effort to try and “beat” a CGNAT situation for my home internet after finally getting an option that isn’t horrifically slow DSL. My goal is to leverage all this new found bandwidth for sharing my Plex server.

There are all sorts of guides out there for doing reverse proxy and virtual servers etc that all sounded kind of obnoxious. I really wanted to tackle this with a single solution, and getting a VPN that does both Port Forwarding and Dedicated IP seemed like the best answer. So here we are with PureVPN:

  • Using Dedicated IP apparently requires connecting to a very specific PureVPN server.
  • Using Port Mapping requires connecting to that same server needed for Dedicated IP.
  • Connecting to the server for Dedicated IP cannot be done through PP2P, L2TP, or OpenVPN.
  • I cannot use my ASUS router’s “VPN Fusion” tool to connect to the server necessary for Dedicate IP. This means I cannot setup device specific VPN connections via my router, which works just fine for NordVPN.
  • That last point is especially frustrating because I CAN use that VPN Fusion tool for standard PureVPN servers.
  • Connecting to the server for Dedicated IP can ONLY be done by installing the PureVPN app directly on the machine.
  • The PureVPN app has basically zero features. No control over only specific apps or machine ports.
  • My server running the PureVPN app now locks up when attempting to access it via XRDP/Remote Desktop. Server is Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.
  • Connection speeds over this specific server needed for Dedicated IP are ~15down / 32up. That’s FAR short of my ISP speeds.

Does it actually work to solve the issue with Plex remote access? Yeah, it actually does. But holy cow that is a lot of caveats to put up with to get there.

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I use a free Oracle VPS and Wireguard. I could use OpenVPN, but that is slower. The VPS gives me a static public IP address and I use iptables to do my port forwarding. This let’s me be in charge. Can’t beat the price.

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What is the monthly for something like that?

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hello, 2 years late. any guide for this? i also need to “beat” CGNAT and do port forwarding

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Oracle gives away up to 4 VPS for free, forever. I got my first 2 in 2019 and have not paid anything. There sometimes are issues with getting your account and getting your VPS allocated but it’s been very solid for me. I use them for VPN servers, to forward ports, along with other tasks. Check out:
r/oraclecloud

If you wanted to rent a VPS, you can find deals that come with a IPv4 address for around a $1/mo. Look at: $1 VPS – 1 USD VPS Per Month (Updated March 2025) - LowEndBox

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Well that’s a hell of a lot cheaper than I expected. Thank you so much for this!

Going to get that PureVPN refund going I think. It was around $130 for 2 years of everything I paid for.