Hi everyone,
I’ve been asking for your help over the past few days, and I want to thank you all—I’ve tried every single suggestion you gave me. I think I’m finally narrowing down the real issue.
For context, I use a 5G Home Internet connection (FWA). On my Xiaomi Mi Box 3 (3rd Gen), standard speed tests fluctuate between 200-300 Mbps (sometimes dropping to around 150 Mbps). However, when I try to stream 4K Remux files on Nuvio and monitor the real-time network bitrate, it drops drastically. It fluctuates wildly—going from 40 Mbps down to 30, sometimes crashing to 6 Mbps, and only occasionally spiking to 80-90 Mbps.
My strong guess is that my 5G ISP is either directly throttling traffic to Debrid servers, or the peering is just terrible. Is it common for ISPs to throttle Debrid services like this?
To test this, I checked the CDN speeds. On my PC, a standard speed test hits 700-800 Mbps, but the TorBox CDN test maxes out at 300-400 Mbps. On the Mi Box, standard tests are 200-300 Mbps, but the TorBox CDN test averages only around 80 Mbps. From what I can see, there’s at least a 60-70% speed loss specifically when connecting to Debrid servers.
What is the definitive solution to this problem? Changing the DNS, or using a VPN? I wanted to test a VPN to see if it bypasses the throttle, but the free ones I tried dropped my overall speed down to 10 Mbps, which makes it impossible to test 4K streaming properly.
I would really appreciate your final thoughts and solutions on how to bypass this. Thank you all so much.
Source: r/TorBoxApp · by /u/Time_Entertainer_810