In your original reply, you cite the app as smart enough to know the mobile ISP even with VPN on, and it shows this to you in the app, yet that is not my experience. If it were as you say, shouldn’t my app still say my mobile ISP even with the VPN active?

Maybe you are running a split tunnel or something? When I’m on VPN over mobile, it’s the same as running the test on my home wifi.

EDIT: we could also be talking about different parts of the app. As I dug further into this, the main page that just shows your speed, connection, and test server work/look the same for me on VPN on mobile or WiFi, showing my home ISP. However, I did discover that if I go into the detailed results page, it shows that I was using a mobile connection and doesn’t show my home ISP name at all. Very curious.

EDIT2: last edit — tests over mobile on VPN in detailed results show my home ISP IP as the egress point, so one should be able to determine if their VPN is effective that way.

Interesting. Not for me.

I have an iPhone with a WireGuard tunnel back to my house. When connected just on cellular, SpeedTest says my mobile provider for the connection.

When I connect to VPN and try again, it says my home ISP provider and doesn’t mention the mobile part at all.

First, let me say I appreciate both this and your main response. I agree it is a backwards mentality.

But if I may offer some feedback on the remainder of your post: in my opinion, anyone that use words or substitutions like “M$” or “Micro$oft” or whatever immediately strike me as a person not engaging in good faith, and trying to rile others up for likes or upvotes; but not looking to engage in serious discourse.

You’re welcome to your opinion, and I might even agree with it and the sentiment behind it, but using 20 year old memes that were only leveraged by teenagers when WinXP was retired and likely never bought a Microsoft product anyway probably isn’t going to resonate.

Please do not take this as my endorsement of Microsoft — it is not — but I also want to have a meaningful discussion and not just trade memes and quotes back and forth in a big circle-jerk against “M$”.

Finally, please know my intention here is not to be mean to or humiliate you. Text doesn’t have the nuance of intonation and inflection of an in-person conversation, and this message may suffer from the same. Please feel free to message me if you’d like to discuss further outside this forum.

Thanks for your thrilling contribution.

Fuck. Social media in general is bad enough. You’re telling me they’re going to get even more unstable?

iPad + Magic Keyboard. It’s my primary device. Pretty easy when you interact with virtually everything in a browser. Plus it gets ridiculous battery life and mine has cellular connectivity.

I do still have a Windows box for gaming, but I don’t browse the web with it; it just boots into Steam Big Picture mode.

Ah, sorry, that’s not how I read it. Have a great day!

That’s more on you than Plex, though, right? Like do you get mad at Walmart or Home Depot because you bought a tool you never use, or don’t use as frequently as you thought you would?

Not defending Plex, I’m just curious.

EDIT: I realize your post referenced pounds as currency, but I don’t know the equivalent stores on that side of the pond. Been 20 years since I was in London! Apologies.

It was a great setup, but ran out of steam in the last episode, I think.

Also one of Michelle Mylett’s first roles before she went on to star in Letterkenny.

Oh c’mon, there’s a whole lot more proof than that.

Steam Machine looks quite intriguing, as well as the VR set. Depending on the pricing and specs, I could see myself using these.

If you don’t have the money for a proper VPN provider, you definitely don’t have the money for a legal defense if it came to that. Save your money and only begin once you can afford reasonable protections.