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Three throttling based on router?

dazmatic

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Curiously, today I thought I'd try the MF286D on the parabolics again, setting the VN007+ aside.
It's been up all day, same configuration, nothings changed.

Initially, I was getting 140-170Mbps down but during the course of the day this has steadily dropped to around 100Mbps.

What's even more curious is despite it wavering, the average is usually around the 100Mbps mark and 20Mbps up.

My question is, can Three see that I'm using a budget friendly MF286D and figure that because it's budget friendly they'll throttle it's performance?

Likewise if I switched to a premium router, e.g. NR5103E, should I expect to see an improvement?
 
They definitely know what device the SIM card is in. Have you tried with a VPN? see if that makes any difference, you could try with Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) it’s free.
 
They definitely know what device the SIM card is in. Have you tried with a VPN? see if that makes any difference, you could try with Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) it’s free.
Can't actually get anything with a VPN. The test ramps up in the first second and then flatlines. Tried 3 different VPNs too.

This is a very curious conundrum.
 
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Does the same thing happen in bridge mode?
It currently is in bridge mode. I'll have to try it DHCP mode and see if that's any different. Failing that I'll just go back to the VN007+.

Hard to find a decent 4G router that supports B32 and decent aggregation that doesn't cost the earth. Don't really like the VN007 as I can't get 5G and it's a bit of a waste but the features I can't beat.
 
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