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I noticed this same issue with my AT&T internet. After some investigation, I found that using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) effectively resolved the problem.

by thorum 3y ago

I noticed this same issue with my AT&T internet. After some investigation, I found that using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) effectively resolved the problem. It seems that when internet traffic is encrypted and routed through a different server, the traffic shaping technique they employ isn’t able to identify and throttle specific types of data.

m0dest 3y ago
When you tunnel/encapsulate your traffic, many variables change at the same time, such as: - maximum transmission unit (MTU) - TCP maximum segment size (MSS) - different DNS responses leading to different edge servers - TCP reordering, which may now occur on the tunnel layer - lost packet retransmission, which may now occur on the tunnel layer - time to live (TTL) hop count on the packet - IPv4 may be used for some connections that were previously using IPv6, as some VPN services are IPv4-only - different peering between the VPN server and the edge server ISP traffic categorization is only one variable.