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VPN throttled on LTE wireless
Using 5G, hard wired or wireless getting when connecting with VPN to work. Used AnyConnect and Fortinet VPN solutions. The throttling does not happen with my other ISP. Why Is T mobile throttling the...
T-Mobile does this to prevent people from using their smartphones in hotspot mode as their internet service for their home. I definitely agree that they need to find some way to distinguish a cell phone from the 5G/LTE wireless home internet modems though. The more people that complain to Support about this, the sooner something will hopefully get done to address the issue.
magenta3892670 wrote:I will help you complain. I have "free wifi" at the apartment building I'm living in and it works fine...most of the time...at nearly 800mbps. The times it doesn't work, I must use hotspot, at 144.4mbps. Barely usable for 480p video. If I'm paying 50 bucks a month for unlimited data/text/calls, I should get decent speed.
o.o 144.4mbps is "Barely usable for 480p video"? 4K uncompressed video tops out at around 40mbps for its data stream. Even 8k video requires just a little more than 144.4mbps being around 160mbps when uncompressed. 1080p is approximately 10mbps on the top end and 480p sits nicely around .5mbps. I'll agree that throttling VPN connectivity is bad, but either the numbers you put in there are VERY wrong, or you're not seeing the behavior you claim.
