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Very interesting, and it confirmed my suspicions that my ISP throttles me (or at least, tries to). I'm using Numericable from Paris and got 18Mbps to Netflix,

Very interesting, and it confirmed my suspicions that my ISP throttles me (or at least, tries to). I'm using Numericable from Paris and got 18Mbps to Netflix, 40Mbps to their comparison test. By going through an SSH tunnel (which makes a 230km detour through Roubaix), I get 39Mbps to both Netflix and control. I am rather surprised that the bandwith loss caused by the SSH tunnel is so small.

ngrilly 10y ago
It's also possible that the route between Numericable and Netflix is insufficiently provisioned, unlike the route from Numericable to your SSH server to Netflix, which can have more capacity. What I mean is that's probably not an intentional throttling. Anyway, it's still a bad service. I have a similar issue sometimes with SFR...
tinalumfoil 10y ago
Is there a place to share these results? I live in northern New Jersey with Verizon and get 55-58 for every speed test I can find. Netflix seems to be faster if anything, but I'm guessing that's due to the competition with Time Warner. https://i.imgur.com/LTcArQX.png https://i.imgur.com/LTcArQX.png