Dedicated IP Address surfshark

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. :thinking: Hmmmmmmm… :man_facepalming:t2: 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.