gigablast slow for months and now almost dead
For several months I have been running speed checks on the gigablast service. Its been slow, hovering around 500 - 600 meg/sec. Not the 900+ when I first signed up. To be honest im lazy so when I kep...
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Find your local representatives and send them emails. Make it an education issue so that they can apply pressure. Enough noise will get them moving.
I just did experiment. If I VPN out, my download (now at 9 meg down nomally), goes from 9 down to 125 - 128 down when connected to VPN and the upload goes to 30 meg.
HOW POSSIBLY can logging into a VPN predictably get me 10x the internet upload and download??!?!
Different routes between you and the speed test server when on the VPN versus not on the VPN. You're probably also hitting different speed test servers when on the VPN. There could be a problem with the server you're hitting when not on the VPN. Try a totally different speed test site. If you can get 30 up on any server it means your modem and Cox connection is capable of that speed and the problem is somewhere else.
