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Proton VPN doubles internet speed? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml to c/protonvpn@lemmy.ml

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With no vpn, my internet speed was limited to 11.7mb/s, at least according to little snitch, but on proton vpn can reach up to 23mb/s. Weird huh. I can now watch 4k streams much easier. Anyway I don't know why this is happening, or how frankly lmao.

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[–] qweertz@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When using a VPN like Proton, I believe you are already using the VPNs DNS

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, sorry, I meant for when off VPN. When you're on Proton VPN, it should use Proton's DNS server by default.

Tracking and controlling DNS queries is one way ISPs can classify and direct traffic, so it's possible that using encrypted DNS would help without using a VPN. Not really sure how common this is in practice.

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

It's a good default to use something like DOH (DNS over HTTPS)

Since the content of the websites is encrypted, it only makes sense to also encrypt DNS as a baseline

OFC it's not as comprehensive as a VPN or Tor, but is a sensible default for day to day stuff