I just fire up the VPN and run it with default settings, minus the port forward within the VPN client itself. So far after a few days of having split tunnel off, it’s still working. Proton did recently release an update, I may try turning it back on, as having VPN active without split tunnel breaks my remote connection outside my home network.
Not having to update the router port sure makes things easier, especially since Proton changes the port at times.
I believe I have found the issue, it appears split tunneling is broken right now. As soon as I disabled it, suddenly got seeds and was able to seed again. Shame split tunneling is not working again, as I need it off for local hosting certain games.
When I decided to host my own personal Plex server. Now I can finally say I have a big D:/
And yes it is nothing but mixed media.