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Streaming throttling
Hi, why is there such throttling of streaming from my mobile device? I’m on a 5G+ plan (with a 15 Pro Max phone), but I can barely watch Twitch or YouTube at 720p. Speedtest always shows 200+ Mbps an...
Ok so I did more research online about this, and people on reddit almost unanimously agree that Telus does tend to throttle video streaming traffic, and the solution is to use a VPN. The logic is, if Telus doesn’t know you’re streaming a video, they won’t throttle.
So I tried using icloud private relay, it only works in safari though, but oh wonder! 4K videos with no buffering at all. The quality on Youtube even defaults to 4K by itself.
I guess it is what it is, but I wonder if it’s even legal that Telus does this. I pay for my high speed data allotment assuming I can use my high speed data any way I want. But then it turns out I can’t.
Wait this would make so much sense, as the buffering problems I’ve also been having don’t happen on my laptop or iPad anymore. The only thing that’s changed is that I have an iCloud relay/vpn/sometimes cloudflare on 24/7 for work (I write for a living & Canadian Google skips relevant research to push CBC articles).
