Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe ISPs use a combination of hardware and software to “throttle down” network connections as they attempt to download more da

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe ISPs use a combination of hardware and software to “throttle down” network connections as they attempt to download more data. For example if I try to download a 10GB file on my personal computer I’ll start off at something like 40mbps and it will take 15 seconds before they start allowing me to scale up to 300mbps. I assume that when downloading things like websites, which should only take tens or hundreds of ms, this unthrottling could also be a significant factor in addition to latency, depending on what the throttling curve looks like. Also ISPs oversell capacity, which they’ve probably always done, so even if you’re paying for a large bandwidth that doesn’t mean you’ll ever get it.