My ISP seems to be throttling my VPN connection. Just started a week or so ago. Anyone have any tips for correcting this shit?

Edit: Sorry, I didn’t leave much info. I guess I was thinking in more general terms. I use PIA, have for years. I’ve tried to change protocols and ports, my VPN speed still sits around 10K. Just ridiculous. Speed test without VPN:

SOLVED!! OK, I’m an absolute idiot. The tl;dr I had accidentally toggled the Toggle Alt. Rate Limits setting. Thank you everyone for attempting to help that which couldn’t be helped!

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    29·
    9 months ago

    Which ISP, which VPN, which protocol, which server?

    You’re not really giving us a whole lot to work with.

    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Sorry, yeah not much to go on. I have Private Internet Access, I’ve tried both protocols and the available ports. Nothing made a difference.

      • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
        93·
        9 months ago

        Looks like they are using OpenVPN and Wireguard, both static protocols that can be easily detected from your ISP.

        Try a provider that offers a proprietary protocol - Astrill and ExpressVPN have their own, for example - or use a shadowsocks service instead.

        And try playing around with different servers as well, I get great speeds going through Switzerland and Sweden with my VPN.

          • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Nobody knows, externally. That’s the thing about proprietary stuff.

            Personally I think they are using a modified open standard and just add an obfuscating layer to the client-server-handshake, but that’s speculation on my end.

        • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          PIA should have an option to change the WireGuard port number to something else, such as port 443. That would obfuscate the traffic a bit, making it look like typical HTTPS traffic.