This is very smart and all, but was that LTE carrier trying to limit video bandwidth for a reason? I get nervous about trying to bypass ISP traffic shaping: they might have limited capacity that's needed by other customers. So if I wanted to watch video at more than SD over a link that only lets me download at SD, I'd be old-fashioned and start it downloading in non real time to watch later (tools like yt-dlp should be able to do this).
It's a pity that it's also hard to contact someone at the ISP who actually knows what they're talking about (rather than just being paid to fob off queries): a quick phone call along the lines of "hey, I'm in Somewhere Forest and I think I'm probably the only serious user of that tower, but I'm not sure, so would you mind terribly much if I bypass the traffic shaping for this movie" would be nice if it were possible.
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Date: 2024-02-21 08:43 am (UTC)It's a pity that it's also hard to contact someone at the ISP who actually knows what they're talking about (rather than just being paid to fob off queries): a quick phone call along the lines of "hey, I'm in Somewhere Forest and I think I'm probably the only serious user of that tower, but I'm not sure, so would you mind terribly much if I bypass the traffic shaping for this movie" would be nice if it were possible.