I've been having extremely slow web browsing performance since getting Gigapower. Conditions change over the course of a day, but generally I'm better off refreshing/resending the request than I am waiting. It can literally pop up a webpage 5 minutes after I request it in some cases. In other cases the page will partially load, but then sit there forever waiting for a particular piece of the page.
If you call AT&T and ask them, they will tell you they do not have any transparent proxy or otherwise mess with your traffic.
However, I can telnet to ANY IP address on port 80 and get a connection response -
MBP-2:~ $ telnet 10.100.1.111 80
Trying 10.100.1.111...
Connected to 10.100.1.111.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection closed by foreign host.
MBP-2:~ $ telnet 10.99.118.42 80
Trying 10.99.118.42...
Connected to 10.99.118.42.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection closed by foreign host.
Comparison from EC2 vs my connection:
[ec2-user@domU-x-x-x-x-x-x ~]$ telnet 4.2.2.2 80
Trying 4.2.2.2...
MBP-2:~ $ telnet 4.2.2.2 80
Trying 4.2.2.2...
Connected to b.resolvers.level3.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection closed by foreign host.
What am I connecting to? A proxy!
Is this a common issue that people have with Gigapower? In the mean time I have setup a Squid Proxy on an Amazon AWS instance - and aside for having to pay for bandwidth there my web browsing is lightning quick when the proxy is enabled.
I opted out of AT&T's spy service and am paying the extra $30/mo, and they are still proxying everything.
I'm assuming that their proxy for my area is relatively overloaded, but it COULD also be peering issues. Speedtests are beautiful, even the DSL reports speed test pretty much maxes out the advertised speeds. It's just web browsing that sucks, and it's pretty apparent that they are proxying all web connections. It gets blatantly obvious when I turn on my AWS based squid proxy and everything performs pretty well.
Any suggestions?
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