Hey guys, my first time posting. I've always used this forum for tech support but only now have something of value to add. So recently I upgraded to FibreMax with Vodafone with provides around 800/500 most of the time. Soon after this I found that my downloads on platforms such as Steam, Origin and Battle.net where not reaching anywhere near my max speed, despite other downloads on other platforms doing fine. Looking abit closer I saw that all 3 apps where downloading at a max of around 8.7MB/s. I did all the usual troubles shooting, changing download regions, double checking bandwidth limits, R&D modes etc but nothing worked.
Being frustrating at not being able to achieve anything near what I was paying for and Vodafone Support being no help, I downloaded Windscribe VPN and connected through a New Zealand based server. Now Windscribe isn't gigabit capable, I was getting around 350mb/s on most speedtest sites but it was enough to test my theory. After a bit of downloading and testing, all three apps that were previously capped to 8.5MB/s all jumped up to 30MB/s and were performing perfecting fine now.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something or is Vodafone actually capping my connection to certain servers. Another interesting thing is there no QoS setting available in my new Vodafone Ultrahub and i can't get a third party modem without sacrificing my home line than that is now VoiP. Thanks!