What Is Throttling? Why You Need to Learn How to Beat Throttling
If video streams slow down while everything else stays fast, that is often not congestion. Your internet provider may be slowing one kind of traffic on purpose. That is ISP throttling, and it is usually invisible unless you look for it.
The way to beat ISP throttling is to hide which service your traffic belongs to. Speedify is an app that encrypts your traffic like a VPN, so your provider cannot single out one service, and combines Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and satellite internet connections into one faster, more reliable connection.
Speedify adds an additional connection for failover if your provider has issues
Read more on what throttling is, how to spot it without special tools, and how to get around it.
How to Know You’re Being Throttled Without Using a Tool
You’re using the internet and most sites load fine, but one website is slow to load. You wonder if the website is down. You check it on your phone’s 4G/5G cellular connection and it works perfectly. Chances are that your ISP is throttling that site.
Follow this guide to test whether your ISP is throttling you.
How to Beat ISP Throttling with Speedify in Five Steps
- Download Speedify on the phone or computer where you see the slowdown. Speedify runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- On a phone, tap Allow when your phone asks to add a VPN configuration.
- Speedify connects to a Speedify server automatically. Your internet provider now sees only an encrypted connection to that server, not the apps and sites you open, so the provider cannot single out one service to slow down.
- Open the service that was being throttled, such as your video streaming app, and use it as usual.
Two Ways to Beat ISP Throttling: Encryption and More Internet Connections
Calling your ISP to complain rarely stops throttling. There is no switch to turn it off, but you can stop the ISP from seeing which service your traffic belongs to, and add bandwidth from a second internet connection.
Encryption only helps against throttling that targets one kind of traffic, such as video streaming. If your plan slows all of your data after you pass a monthly data cap, a VPN cannot hide that, because the cap counts all of your traffic. In that case, a second internet connection, such as Wi-Fi or another 4G/5G cellular plan, is what adds speed.
Use a VPN
When you use a VPN, your data is encrypted, so your ISP cannot see what you are doing. An ISP cannot throttle a service it cannot identify, so in theory a VPN can raise your speeds on the websites or services that were being throttled.
However, a VPN encrypts your connection and reroutes your traffic through one of the VPN provider’s servers. That extra step slows down your connection, and the loss can be bigger than the gain from beating throttling, so the net result may be slower than you expect.
Combine internet connections
To make up for that drop in speed, add a tool for combining internet connections. Such an app combines multiple internet connections at once, such as Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular, so you get more bandwidth than one connection gives.
Beat ISP Throttling with One App That Encrypts and Combines Connections
Instead of paying for two different services and running two different apps, you can use a service that does both: encrypting your traffic and combining multiple connections.
Speedify is an app that encrypts your traffic and combines internet connections. With Speedify, your ISP cannot see what you are doing, so the ISP cannot single out one service to throttle. Speedify can also use multiple internet connections at once to raise your speeds on a throttled website.
Speedify also helps if you only have one internet connection.
On a single connection, Speedify watches for lost packets and resends them automatically in the background, with nothing for you to turn on, so you still get more than a regular VPN gives.
Stop ISP Throttling with Speedify
Throttling slows down the services you use most, and Speedify is a simple way around it. If torrent traffic is being slowed, see how to use a VPN with qBittorrent.
Speedify has servers in over 50 locations worldwide (the full list comes with a paid plan). Speedify’s servers encrypt and combine the traffic from your internet connections, and the websites you visit see the server’s IP address instead of yours.
With Speedify, you get encryption, combined internet connections and failover in one app, which makes Speedify a practical way to beat ISP throttling. The free tier includes 5 GB per month with a free Speedify account, so you can test it on your own connection.
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