I found the video on surfshark’s dedicated IP very interesting. I look at surfsharks service but wasn’t able to see how to setup the dedicated IP on my systems. (Android boxes, Samsung tv, windows computers). Their instructions seem to be missing key elements necessary to hook them up. CAn anyone help. I reached out to surfshark but am still waiting for a reply
Have you looked at this? You may have already but figured I would share it. Good Luck
Hello, I setup the dedicated IP Address on my router due to the fact that it isn’t available on Fire TV/Android TV systems yet. It is available on computers and phones. Surfshark says later this year it will be made available for Fire TV and Android TV apps. Working great on my router and never have captchas or any other site blocked anymore such as bank, etc.
I tried to get the dedicated IP but after trying to load it onto SurfShark it kept failing. Went on chat with one of their techs, who advised me it would not work on android or android tv systems, so I got a refund. The tech did say as a last resort you could try for a manual installation option but I decided not to. The cost is not cheap as it is in excess of $4 per month.
It works on Android phones and tablets and will be coming to Android TV and Fire TV sometime this year. Agree price is high but removes most annoyances of using a VPN.
In my experience with SurfShark the dedicated IP is better for personal devices like phone, tablet and computer to reduce captchas and site blocks. If your concerned with IPTV a static ip will get the job on streaming devices, but a dedicated IP won’t hurt if you can get it working on the router or official wireguard app.
Surfshark added the dedicated IP to the Surfshark extension for Chrome and Edge. I decided to try the Surfshark dedicated IP for the 2nd time. The first time, only the computer app was available and the speed was dog slow for a computer ~250mbs. Now, using the Surfshark extension for Chrome and Edge, the speed is ~1gbs. Greatly reduces the captchas and site blocks as “fuzzynet” and “TP” stated. Using the dedicated IP with the Asus router works well with the Firestick 4k max. Speed is ~250mbs, however plenty for a Firestick steaming apps. The dedicated IP worked on 3 out of 4 IPTV services for me. Over all, its a “A” rating.
Agree with you on this. The dedicated IP takes away all of the headaches that typically come, especially sites and services that block VPNs. Surfshark says they will be introducing the dedicated IP address to Fire TV and Android TV apps by end of this year. Let’s hope that’s the case.
BLUF: What I want to do Is set up a Dedicated IP at two locations (using Nvidia Shield, Fire Stick, and onn.) where I use Real-Debrid so I don’t get blacklisted streaming with both Syncler and Stremio simultaneously.
Unfortunately as of mid-January, SurfShark has still not incorporated use of their Dedicated IP feature into their Nvidia Shield ATV app. They have a KB that walks you through a workaround that they say MIGHT work. It’s frustrating as I’m paid up with them through 2029. I’m considering giving PIA a shot, but since I trust @TROYPOINT and team so much I wanted to ask if you’ve have an opinion on them and if they would work for my specific use case.
PIA is US based, but state they have a no logs policy that’s been proven in court and stress tested by Deloitte.
Does anyone know if my PIA solution would be viable and safe?
Or do I need to…
ALT WORKAROUND 1: If and ONLY IF, I had a Dedicated IP, I could just set up a whole house VPN within all of my routers. I can’t believe that just occurred to me. I’ve been reluctant to do that before because I do stream Netflix and other paid apps that I don’t want to go through the VPN for multiple reasons, i.e., risk of being blocked and risk of slower connection. 
Hmmmmmmm… 
That would get me around the Netflix anti-sharing too, but I guess there’s still risk of being detected, then again I could set up a P2P between the houses and then I wouldn’t need a Dedicated IP, but then if the main house loses Internet everywhere is screwed.
ALT WORKAROUND 2: I guess I could just use one of the included STATIC IPs in SurfShark, but I’m worried those are tied to single servers and might get overloaded; which would be a pain having to change the server in multiple locations simultaneously. To date, I’ve just ensured all locations use the same ‘city’ such as Miami or whatever. I believe that as I can’t pick a specific server within a city that those locations are load balanced in some fashion. In over two years doing it this way I’ve only been flagged by RD once, but that only happened when using Syncler at one house and Stremio at the other. Still, it was scary enough to make me stop using Stremio until I figure this out.
Well I haven’t tried them yet!
Do you know of any limitations or risks of two houses using the same VPN IP to bypass RD’s flagging? Be it the regular shared static IP servers that come with Surfshark or paying for a private dedicated IP?