• thomcat
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    7 months ago

    Using a VPN on a shitty network won’t magically make your network connection better.

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      7 months ago

      It is possible. Maybe the peering from his ISP to YouTube is shit/ overloaded. That was an issue for Deutsche Telekom for a few years because Telekom didn’t want to pay for better peering. With a VPN it is possible to get good peering to your ISP and YouTube and in return faster load speeds.

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        7 months ago

        Well crap, I didn’t consider that, thanks!

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      7 months ago

      No but it can definitely work around issues like a congested link between isp and Google, resolving network-related YouTube performance issues.

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      7 months ago

      No, but it does affect what route your traffic goes through.