[stomachmonkey]

In my dealings with SONY / MSFT / Nintendo I'm required to have a whitelisted static IP to access developer portals on the backend.

That used to be easy before COVID when we had physical office space to tunnel through.

For the last few years I'm using NORD and PUREvpn.

NORD is the primary and PURE the back up.

NORD has been rock solid although they have a bad habit of making unnecessary UI changes that don't lead to a better UX.

There are always deals for NORD, I pay something stupid cheap like $20.00 for the year plus some additional for the dedicated IP.

VPN's services will slow things down a bit.

The other thing to be aware of is you may get a bit cock blocked with your financial institutions.

Most everyone tracks the IP addresses you use to access sensitive accounts and when they see something new or abnormal, like you logged in the last 1,000 x's from Tampa but now you are coming in from Seattle or Nigeria, will challenge you to prove you are you.

Not unlike when you use your credit card outside your normal usage area.

If you use a VPN's public IP try to use the same server all the time to minimize that issue.