Well, i decided to brush up my simple HTML page and created a fully linked wiki on the subject. Please take a look, in the hope it will be useful for at least one fellow one-eyed leg-pegged passionate data hoarder.
Any hints or suggestions is appreciated.
It might, at times, it’s behind a convoluted set of proxies of course.
in any case, seems to be working for me now. same pc, same vpn, same dns, connected via same vpn server. so no clue