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Some ISPs are known to cheat and give speed-test websites preferential treatment so that the speed looks fine when testing.
Also you are likely on a cable-modem, right? These are a shared medium, so those 1000/50 numbers need to be taken with a huge grain of salt as it highly depends on how much other people in nearby apartments/houses are using it.
Try if at all possible to switch to a home fiber connection, as those offer much more consistent connections and usually also higher upload speeds.
Cable, yes. WOW is planning high-split soon, and also fiber in my city but it isn't complete yet. The alternative is Comcast but there are ridiculous data caps and you have to use their gateway for the higher tiers. They also pulled the "failed to return equipment" scam on me back in 2007. That stayed in collections for 7 years, fuck 'em.
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.
Is this cable service? Cable often shares capacity with people on your “block” so when everyone is uploading, your upload suffers. I had real trouble with cable a few years ago where intermittently my upload would throttle so hard that tcp acks would fail to send and my download would tank too. FIOS was the best thing that every happened to my internet!
Yes, WOW. It's docsis 3.1 down, but still 8x 3.0 up. They're planning high split and fiber but I'll have to wait. My nic is dual sfp+, just need something worthy to plug into it.
Nice about the NIC- I’m still on gigabit in the house which is fine- 100ish MBps is fast enough that copying a movie or something is still just a minute or two, but my NAS supports a 10Gb expansion card- I might upgrade one day. I don’t know how much speed I get get through my CAT 6- I haven’t tested above gigabit speeds. Really though I don’t need my LAN to be substantially faster than my internet, so gigabit is fine for the next few years I think.
I built it with the goal of being upgradable when prices came down and I grew into the system. That lasted 2 months and I'm swimming in transceivers and switches lol
If a speed test from opnsense is fine, but librespeed is slow, sounds like it's an issue inside your network.
I'm in the same boat as you. I have 1000/40 and my upload speed is the only reason I have a VPS.
Do you host everything on the vps, or proxy from it?
I just currently host anything high bandwidth on the VPS and everything else at home.