I’ve got 1000/50 service from a mid-size ISP. It’s pretty consistent- any time I run a speed test from home, it will hit those numbers. I have an opnsense plugin checking twice a day.
Performance from my self-hosted services to the internet, however, is very inconsistent. Sometimes I get the full 50, sometimes it will only hit 5 Mbit/s.
Is it possible a VPS proxy could provide less congested routes? Is there a better way to troubleshoot the bottleneck? When i notice a slowdown, usually watching a clip on frigate, I’ll use a public speedtest to check my field connection. If it’s over 50 down, I’ll check librespeed on my server. If frigate or plex is fast, librespeed will be too. If I’ve noticed a problem, librespeed has always agreed.
My host machine is a 5700g w/ 64 gigs of ram, X520 nic to an S33 modem, so I don’t think it’s a hardware bottleneck.
While proxying or tunneling to a VPS can sometime improve international connectivity (as usually VPSs live in machines that situate in well-connected datacenters), the bottomneck of your uplink is still at your 50Mbps connection.
Also are you connecting to the servers closest to you or better within your country when you did those speedtests? If yes, it implies the your uplink is throttled locally not internationally.
Downloads won’t hit 1000 from home (but still 500+) if I pick more distant servers, but uploads are usually fine. I think my ISP games it and uncorks for speed tests.