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I always had problems with services like twitch and not being able to open some websites unless i spam refresh.

Today i decided to try a vpn (proton vpn) and all those problems went away, twitch was completely smooth 1080p and all the websites that didn't open unless i spammed refresh worked fine, those sites were gitlab and vim fandom wiki

Do you guys that understand a lot about networking know what could cause this, my bet is on my ISP messing with my network packets. I live in Portugal my ISP is meo and i have 200/100Mbps.

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Yes, this could be due to an ISP throttling your bandwidth. Can't think of any other reason you would be seeing increased network performance with a VPN. Your ISP could easily be targeting video streaming traffic and that would explain your issue with Twitch. They call this "congestion-management". While utilizing your VPN the traffic will be encrypted. This will disrupt their throttling capability.

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