[proverbialbunny]

It's also a lie. AT&T currently has a slow lane. Eg, I have fiber gigabit duplex, but for encrypted uploads to unknown servers, I get throttled to 10mbps. This restricts VPN traffic to many companies, including mine 10 miles away. This also restricts bit torrent traffic, and AT&T employs some sort of Sandvine like service that sends disconnect messages to users downloading from AT&T.

As far as I know AT&T has not created a slow lane for download speeds, which is why most people probably do not notice.

[drivebycomment]

There are many possible reasons for a network traffic between two endpoints to not saturate your connection throughput to your ISP, and unless you can rule out all those other reasons, you can't just conclude that the lower throughput is due to any kind of deliberate throttling. I'm not saying they are NOT throttling. I'm just saying what you said is not enough evidence.

It's true Comcast has been caught doing a packet forgery - https://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-af... . If ATT is also doing it, it should be straightforward to collect evidence. So is there any evidence collected that shows ATT is doing packet forgery ?

[throwaway7644]

I was wondering if I was the only one having that issue. It's a shame no other company in my area offers 1000Mbs duplex because when it does work, it's great.

[kingnothing]

This must be regional. I also have AT&T Fiber and have not experienced any throttling under any circumstances, regardless of VPN usage.

[proverbialbunny]

Have you tried seeding something on bit torrent? That's a pretty easy way to tell.

[kingnothing]

Yes, over a VPN. Works fine.

[thehappypm]

Cellular networks, I believe, are allowed to throttle.