I’m a longtime subscriber of Windscribe, and I was wondering how good their residential static IPs are. I already have a Toronto static Datacenter IP, and mostly it’s fine using it, but I’ve been dealing with a lot of blocks from websites still. For those who use Residential static IPs, I wanted to know if you still see as many blocks with Residential IPs or have any other potential issues. Just want to see what the consensus is before I buy. Thanks!
Windscribe use beanfield fiber for their residential ip in Toronto. I use for 1 years now and never have any problem. Uptime is great - Only 1 downtime 2-3 hours a sunday morning. Great speed . All canadian streaming work great. I use passe partout vpn apps for my mobile device.
Ip are not taggued vpn like others static ip… too
Just a little reminder p2p is not allowed…
I like it. I like to have everything in my network VPN’d so I put my VPN on the router but doing that with a data center IP causes too many issues with things getting blocked/captcha, so this fixes that. Although, every year when it renews my wife always asks what it’s for and do we really need it… going on 4-5 years now, we will see how long I can hold onto it for lol
Toronto residential I.P. doesn’t work for a certain TV service that carries the premier league, It’s not actually Windscribe at fault but that service, My Chicago I.P. is faultless
Thank you for asking - I have been asking myself the same question for maybe 3 years.
Except for the fact the Windscribe client is switching my fixed IP to another server once in a while. I’m happy with it. Oh the lag on my fixed IP is generally 2, 3 times higher than the regular servers of the same area. But it doesn’t affect the services enough to be noticeable.
I am trying it this week. It is not detected as a vpn ip , at least until now. Make sure to set the adapter’s dns to 10.255.255.1.
Sounds awesome. Glad to hear it’s what it’s cracked up to be.
And yeah, I’m aware about the p2p rule. That’s what I got the datacenter IP for anyway, hahaha
does this let you get back into your network from remote locations? i’m behind cgnat and have been thinking about using this approach for remote access.
I do use tailscale but looking for something easier that I can just put on my firewall (untangle) and be able to see everything coming into my network
You don’t need a VPN service to be able to remote into your home network. You just need a router that can act as a VPN server (recommend Wireguard)
I’m behind cgnat no direct access to my router. Cell phone network. Hoping to run Windscribe on the router and access using the Windscribe static ip