I’m not a professional developer, I’m just doing some projects for myself that would benefit from using groq, but as I said, I do use a VPN (and a PiHole, if that matters) at home and VPN on the go too.
At the moment, I am working on my transcription app / service for my phone and desktop PC. As an android user, WhatsApp does not offer transcription of voice messages in german, and therefore I built a little service with local (on phone) whisper-large-v3 (slow but quite nice), Gemini and groq, so I have options: local slow for when I do not have mobile or wifi available, or cloud based fast for when mobile data or wifi is available.
As is, I can only use the fast and precise groq model when I’m on mobile data or at home, because my phone does not have VPN enabled at home. Anywhere else where I am connected to a wifi, VPN is on and groq does not work.