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Ditto, same in a rural area of Wisconsin I'm at a lot, for the past 3 years or so. Like, 3/4 of the Internet is slow through their shaping garbage. What worked
by jskier 4y ago
Ditto, same in a rural area of Wisconsin I'm at a lot, for the past 3 years or so. Like, 3/4 of the Internet is slow through their shaping garbage. What worked for me was using WireGuard to my home network in an urban area (1 gig symmetrical fiber), or, using an ssh ~ socks proxy. Problems no more, until they decide to block those.
Support has been awful, best of luck if you go that route. They took us off their unlimited plan without consent, took 6 months to get it back. Also, throttling doesn't actually seem to happen once over their limit on the advertised unlimited* data plan, it's just most of the Internet is awfully slow most of the time going directly through this, ah, ISP, which they claim to be.
* Not actually an unlimited plan
- reaperman 4y agoI use a VPN to a cheap server in a lesser-known datacenter. Also works for bypassing government level blocks in middle eastern countries. But yes, AT&T throttles a wide diversity of content, even on their very highest tier plan (Unlimited Elite, now named Unlimited Premium). This is advertised as never throttling, no matter how much data you use (all other customers are supposed to get throttled first). Also the throttling happens with mobile hotspot, I have to use VPN on my laptop with many many sites as well, even when I'm inside the "40GB/mo of unthrottled hotspot data". The speeds instantly go way, way up once I hop on VPN.