Originally Posted by
vanillabean
What’s your take on Verizon throttling these days? My iPhone never gets past 5 mpbs anywhere in the U.S. With VPN turned on yesterday, it was up to 80 mbps. Have users been better off in the two years since the Federal Communications Commission voted in favor of repealing the net neutrality policies?
What speed testing service are you using?
Most verizon plans throttle "video" sites like netflix. If you are using Fast.com (netflix's speed test service), you'll be throttled as Verizon thinks you are streaming video. Turning on a VPN would bypass this throttle as you have noticed.
In my testing the Fast.com app tops out at 4mbps while on verizon LTE, fire up ExpressVPN on at the same location (weak signal) and I'm getting over 16mbps download speed
The ookla app shows me around 25mpbs in this same weak signal location while NOT on vpn.
download the Ookla speed test app, I find this more reliably shows the real speed as it isn't categorized by the providers in their data deprioritization schemes.