Experiencing Streaming Issues? Let’s Get It Fixed

This is just my comment from the reddit thread copy/pasted-

I mean, these are all good points on things to look at if you're general internet speed is struggling, but here's my frustration personally: I get on average around 25mbps downloads from WankzVR/POVR. The same from BadoinkVR and NaughtyAmericaVR. Usually even a bit higher near 30mbps from CzechVR and VirtualTaboo. These are the download speeds I am getting as of literally right now, as I am typing this.

When I run the SLR speedtest I get usually around 25mbps download speeds. But here's the issue: I average around 3-3.5mbps average actual download speed with SLR. Like clockwork, 3-3.5mbps and never higher. And I can only assume the streaming is limited to the same, since it has been exceptionally choppy and constantly buffering for me lately.

This has literally only been an issue in the last week or so, never a problem in the whole time I've had SLR Premium before, which is why I and it seems like many others have brought it up on your site, since yes- in theory it could be a large number of us suddenly experiencing the same issue, but having a hard time believing it's not something on SLR's end.

Edit: using a VPN it briefly shot up to around 6mbps, then quickly dropped back down to around 3mbps.

Personally, on badoinkvr, I go up to 80/90MBps and on SLR, 25MBps.
The speed is therefore divided by almost 3 or even 4.
Well, I am not complaining for all that, 25MBps, it is already not bad, it goes very quickly, but there is still something which restricts the flow to a certain level.
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So I've figured out my speed issue, and maybe this will help any other guys who are having a similar issue.

I was getting very slow (3mb/s) download/streaming pretty much no matter what I tried: with a VPN, without a VPN, trying a bunch of different SLR servers and various tests with Tony from SLR Support, etc. Nothing was improving it beyond the very slow speed, which was a pretty recent issue that came up in the past few weeks.

Just for fun to absolutely guarantee it wasn't an ISP throttling issue (even though I was already sure it wasn't), I downloaded a different VPN than the ones I'd tried before. Bingo, it worked.

That was literally the issue: it was my ISP throttling, but the problem was that the VPN services I had tried using to test this initially were various free or "sample" versions of their VPN, and had severely limited options as far as which servers you could select to use. So the servers that the free VPN's defaulted to were poor ones, and gave me entirely inaccurate info and slow speeds as a result. With an actual full VPN, I've tested a handful of the 100+ server options available with it, and so far every single one has been at the very lowest 3x as fast with MB/s download speeds from SLR.

TL;DR: even though I was sure it wasn't an ISP throttling issue, it was. And using an actual full VPN solved it.

So who has good VPN recommendations? I'm not having a speed issue with downloads here but streaming in other ways.

mikestwitness So I ended up going with HotSpot Shield myself. They had an inexpensive 3-year plan, reviews I read pointed to them as generally having the fastest download speeds, and they had a 45-day no questions asked refund policy, which I would have just used had it not solved my own issue with download speeds.

It's nothing fancy and no doubt there's probably better VPN's for others, but tbh for my own uses I didn't need anything too crazy. But there seems to be plenty of choices of providers that are all fairly inexpensive.

mikestwitness I'm using Pure VPN, probably worth checking some articles https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-fastest-vpns

doublevr I tried this and it actually decreased my download speeds substantially. I went from 120MB/sec to only 20MB/sec speeds.

doublevr what that article on the link you quoted suggested changing, the auto-tuning settings

Followed the steps outlined just like in the instructions and it immediately dropped my download speeds. As soon as I reverted back the settings to normal my speeds jumped back up. That's it.

metichemsi It's not a universal fix for everything
We have had a good amount of users where this did resolve the issue.