I’ve always wanted to know why ISP may throttle you and what could you do to make them stop if they did ???
If you have a bad slow connection already via your ISP.
Not using a VPN they may notice excessive bandwidth usage by you when streaming things like 4K DV content, and throttle you during peak times.
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About 15 years ago one of the major ISP’s in Canada decided to throttle torrents. I left them when I discovered this and spent 12 years with their biggest competitor. Miki would know both of these. R and B … and that’s not music. They finally stopped and offered a better internet and I went back with them with a great deal three years ago. It’s not an issue now but then, for a few very select member only sites, it was. Downstream was never throttled, not even back to a peer while downloading but as soon as you were a seed. bam.
Miki…
What is 4K DV content?
Also, does it matter if you have “unlimited data plan”?
4K Dolby Video, and Data doesn’t mater.
Referring to unlimited data, I’m guessing you’re meaning no data caps policy from your ISP?
Most ISPs, even ones that advertise no data caps, will have fine print baked into their TOS “fine print” that will indicate their right to throttle bandwidth during times of elevated network congestion and peak time congestion - with particular mention to upload bandwidth.
You can reduce the chances of throttling from your ISP by using a VPN - though ironically, tunneling through a VPN by design, significantly lowers your bandwidth.
Pick a poison.