My sincere apologies for the delay in getting around to this. I finally finished the work project that has left me little time to devote to anything else and did some testing yesterday. Much to my surprise, the Tidal situation seems to have improved without using a VPN. I experienced no skips in several hours of listening to MQA files (the most problematic, particularly the higher bitrate, and presumably larger, files). I will have more listening time this week which will confirm whether this continues to be the case. I have changed nothing in my home network.