With no vpn, my internet speed was limited to 11.7mb/s, at least according to little snitch, but on proton vpn can reach up to 23mb/s. Weird huh. I can now watch 4k streams much easier. Anyway I don’t know why this is happening, or how frankly lmao.
With no vpn, my internet speed was limited to 11.7mb/s, at least according to little snitch, but on proton vpn can reach up to 23mb/s. Weird huh. I can now watch 4k streams much easier. Anyway I don’t know why this is happening, or how frankly lmao.
When on the VPN, you’re actually going from your home, to your ISP, and then your ISP forwards your stuff to the VPN provider and then once it’s with them, they move it out onto their ISP until it reaches the final destination. You’re adding more hops even if choosing a local region/point-of-presence.
Like other person said, I have definitely heard of how ISPs would throttle some traffic and in the past, this would actually be done for VPN traffic–not really your regular traffic. Not too sure about why the VPN speed test is giving those numbers but there’s probably something not being taken into account.
Also not all VPNs are the same. I think Opera was flaunting having a built-in VPN at one time and this really wasn’t a VPN IIRC. Never tried Proton VPN and so I can’t tell.