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One thing that bothers me about Free Wifi nowadays is traffic shaping. Here in Latin America, it is very common to have internet fast lanes dedicated to WhatsAp
by giovannibonetti 3y ago
One thing that bothers me about Free Wifi nowadays is traffic shaping. Here in Latin America, it is very common to have internet fast lanes dedicated to WhatsApp, when Telegram is unusable in the same connection. I notice sometimes I'm connected to a public wifi and Telegram stops working, then if I disconnect and go back to the mobile carrier it suddenly is back and alive.
- johnwalkr 3y agoUsually just before boarding a flight I remember that I should download some shows on NetFlix. Half the time airport wifi is too slow to do this, presumably because it throttles netflix to make it stream at the lowest bitrate.
- brewdad 3y agoI've always assumed slow airport wi-fi is that way because they have one 50mb connection being shared by thousands of users. I always connect through a VPN yet everything still runs slow. I don't think the airport is throttling specific sites.
- johnwalkr 3y agoSometimes or maybe even most of the time, but I've definitely had the experience where downloading a file for work is fast, but Netflix is hopelessly slow.
- tracker1 3y agoI almost always just VPN through home, even on my phone (gets to use my pihole that way). It definitely depends from place to place though... sometimes using the VPN is dramatically slower than it should be. At least my uplink at home is now 100mbps from the 20mbps it was when I signed up, which helps a lot.