Let me go ahead and state my ultimate goal here first, I'm trying to establish some way to stream Xbox one games from outside my home LAN in the most free way possible. I've started researching and so far I see there are two trains of thought, establish a VPN to access your home network or port-forward your Xbox one's address. Now, bare with me here because my knowledge of VPN and port forwarding is admittingly crude. But is there something that should make me go one way or the other? As I understand it VPN is secure while anyone could access the Xbox if I portforward it, but I'm not sure if that's a real danger or not. Would one stream a higher quality/faster than the other? I'm not hyper concerned about speed because this is mostly for fun, but it needs to fast enough that's its practical. My home speeds are 20/200 if I'm not mistaken. General tips/advice? Thanks in advance.

VPN latency would kill that idea.

You want to port forward. Read up here: https://kinkeadtech.com/how-to-stream-xbox-one-to-windows-10-from-anywhere-with-internet/

The bottom of that article is actually where I got the vpn idea, but other articles I've seen agree with you that vpn is too slow. It's too bad because it would've made turning it off/on slightly easier at least.

Or just buy a PS4 because remote play is supported natively ;P

If you are worried about security I'd try ssh tunneling. I don't know how the latency would be for video, but it works great when I need to RDP, VNC, or whatever when away from home. You'll have to google it, as I'm not explaining how to set it up here, but I use a Pi with port forwarding to enter from outside. From outside you can set up another pi, linux box, a pc running putty, or even a mac to accept connections and forward them across the internet. Its not as complicated as it sounds

VonDownByTheRiver said:

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Or just buy a PS4 because remote play is supported natively ;P

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This