How well does proton vpn work with an Amazon fire stick 4K?

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I’m trying to do research on all vpns and from what i can tell proton is very good overall. I just wanted to check how well it worked on the stick itself and if there are any cons. Thanks in advance

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It’s easier to put a VPN network on your router and put the fire stick on on that network in an isolated configuration. This takes less CPU / RAM usage off the stick.

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the con for me was no split tunneling, it’s a pretty basic app with little customisation from what I remember - last used it maybe 1-2 months ago.

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I too find this the easier way to use a VPN on my router it then works on all devices on my network.

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Is it? Do you then often switch networks or always use VPN. As I often use VPN intermittently at least for such a thing as streamer.
On my phone I often have always on VPN and if not want a specific one like United States or another. But not always the same. Then this is not easyo use at alll

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Split tunnelling is available on the Fire stick and Google TV app.

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What does split tunneling do? I’m very new to all of this so sorry if that’s a basic question

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You can use proton conf files with openvpn to achieve that

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With vpn fusion you can create a few different VPN networks all on different vlans and subnets with AP isolation. My router has a connection in Monaco for YouTube, another in London for the bbc and a P2P network.

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I have one device that is always on VPN , some that I switch countries with and some that don’t use it at all.

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You can exclude apps from VPN, so they use your ‘normal’ connection

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with split tunneling you’ll have a choice of what apps on your firestick you want to route over the vpn connection.

depends on your use case if the lack of that function is an issue or not.

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Thank you. That makes sense. I’m thinking of getting proton or surfshark. As they seem to be the cheaper ones. I mostly just want to stream stuff is all