Hi all, I’ve tested my download speed on 3 or 4 different sites: speedof.me, fast.com, testmy.net, and speedtest.net. Same result across the board: I get 200+ Mbps dl speed on VPN and ~50ish unprotected. Upload remains about the same with/without VPN.
I pay for 200 Mbps, but I’m curious to what’s happening here. I live in a large-ish city of around 1 million people and it’s regarded as a tech hub. Is my VPN circumventing a throttle my ISP put in place? Searched this sub but didn’t find anything definitive for an answer.
Spectrum? I found this to be the case when I stayed at my uncle’s place last year in a similarly classed city. I didn’t see anything obvious when reviewing the contract. I guess if they continue to get away with it, and not lose very many customers, it will continue to happen.
Did you try changing your DNS servers to one of the popular public ones? Without the VPN, I mean. I’ve previously had issues with my provider’s DNS just being shit. I think it was mediacom. Changing the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 resolved 99% of my problems. There are other ones out there, but Google’s are a good place to start and test due to their speed and reliability.
If you’re paying for 200, they aren’t throttling you unless you’ve blown through your data.
Yeah, it’s spectrum. That’s pretty weird
Didn’t they have a class action lawsuit against them which they lost and had to payout big time because they pulled such shit?
I’d like to know too, I have never used one but I’m interested in getting one.
Interesting, tried your suggestion but still the same speeds on ethernet with the Google DNS. Might contact my ISP and confront them on it? I downloaded maybe 300 gigs worth of games this past week, would that be a reasonable throttling threshold?
Spectrum fuckin sucks. They have a monopoly where I live
Not big time enough if they are still pulling the same shit. I’m lucky enough not to live in a Spectrum area, so I’m not sure. I was amazed to find a service so much worse than Comcast (regularly rated the worst customer service), but Spectrum just yelled “hold my beer” and sprayed mud.
Simplified - A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is just virtualizing (connecting over the internet) a connection from your device/network to another private network. So that your device/network appears to (again “virtually”) be a member of that private network (LAN). Like joining WiFi or plugging in to the switch.
“VPN Providers” offer connections to their network for geolocation, privacy, and other marketing claims. There are other subs dedicated to finding a provider, here we can better help you set up a VPN between two or more networks.
Take a look at your contract and see if they included data caps/throughput maximums. I’ve noticed a lot of providers starting to add it in small (and not so small) print.
Edit: But generally no, that wouldn’t be enough. They may suspect high usage, but if it isn’t outlined that they can throttle you for it in the contract you have legal footing to make a complaint.
Do you have your own router, or their “managed” one?
I’ll tell ya man, I’m baffled and it feels like we’re missing something easy. If you’re paying for 200Mb, getting it on VPN, but not without, there’s some configuration problem.
I mean I get thinking they’re throttling you, but a business no matter how shitty isn’t likely making such a dick move. That’s lawsuit material, however small it may be.
Just not in their best interest.