Comment by daedalus_j

3 years ago

I have had multiple problems with ISPs throttling/prioritizing traffic, such as games. In one case I had ping times to the steam servers that were so bad the game DC'd about every 5 minutes. Popped everything into a VPN endpoint in my own city and suddenly everything worked smoothly and flawlessly. And this wast not a high bandwidth game by any means. This has happened multiple times.

Also, hosting stuff at my house. Multiple times had ISPs that appeared to be degrading incoming connections where once again popping everything into a VPN tunnel fixed any problems. (for example when I set up a streaming website from my house with a webcam of our kittens to watch from work. Stream kept getting interrupted randomly until I routed it through a VPN)

I tend to use VPS based solutions rather than commercial VPN providers, but I've done both.