Have we reached a saturation point for broadband speeds in India?

[Kyle Crane]

@markiv for whatever reason my local ISP felt like a DPI free connection until somewhere in Aug 2025 where due to heavy rains some fiber cables broke off from the trees and whole connection went offline for the first time in 6 months ,it was restored 3 hours later and it was much slower than my 200mbps plan

Eventually as the day passed ,the connection restored to full 200mbps bandwidth but I noticed how little things were taking a bit longer than usual

Like images on Pinterest ,twitter posts and etc

Which gave me a vibe that it might be DPI
Now I’m not nerd enough to actually test about DPI

But whenever I used Proton VPN over the same apps ,the load times would be significantly faster and the way how it was before

 

[pillaicha]

Why does it have to be DPI? Why can't it simply be a more prevalent issue like poor routing by both the local ISPs and their popular upstreams like VSNL/Tata/Airtel/Jio?

 

[Kyle Crane]

Hmm could be

But then why does it get solved by a VPN tho

 

[pillaicha]

VPN routing is different from your native routing?

 

[Kyle Crane]

im not sure how do i find that with the VPN on

 

[Kyle Crane]

this is what bgp tools says when im not on a VPN

 

[markiv]

Try tracert and check ping spikes. Also try to open jiotv.com, if images are loading fine then it is not MTU. Disable ipv6 and test connection. If jiotv opens and no change after disabling ipv6 then it is routing issue/misconfuguration at ISP end.

 

[Kyle Crane]

JioTv loads quickly no problems and i have ipv6 disabled

 

[markiv]

Try goodbye dpi (Google search but that should not solve your problem) yours seems routing issue, try with different dns servers if not that then ask isp to change routing with traceroute data. There should be unnecessary ping spikes in hops

 

[guest123]

if not that then ask isp to change routing with traceroute data.

That's like expecting Singapore Airlines service from Indigo on their bad day.