After more testing it doesn't seem quite as successful as I had hoped. I'm loathe to crosspost between forums, but here's something I wrote over at VM Community:
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Originally Posted by Zeke
Now I've found that the TiVo Commander app will work across 3G or WiFi networks that aren't on the LAN the VPN is on. However the functionality of the app is severely impaired: it doesn't appear to schedule recordings and series links correctly or at all as it would if it were directly on the LAN. Sometimes it seems to parse several requests at once, things I've tried earlier via the app but seemed to fail at the time.
This might be related to a speed issue the VPN appears to have. When streaming video from my NAS PC via FTP outside the LAN the buffering is efficient enough to prevent dropouts assuming the file size isn't too large to overwhelm the 3Mb/s upload speed of my broadband. However, the exact same videos are terrible when played via SMB over VPN, almost as if VPN has a bitrate overhead impacting performance. These tests were performed on my laptop but the VPN itself seems really unstable on my phone too, and doesn't appear to stay connected even when the notification bar hasn't informed me of a disconnect.
Probably completely the wrong place to post all of this, but being new to VPN I could use some hints here.
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