Internet becomes super slow at night for some services?
Before I start let me say that I have no idea if this is the correct place to ask this, if there is a better place please let me know, I barely use Reddit so I have no idea how to find the right place to ask something.
About 2 weeks ago I started having issues with discord on my pc (windows 11). it would become super slow around 11 pm (sometimes 5-20 minutes before) for seemingly no reason. My drivers, discord, and windows are all up to date. It was really annoying, it wouldn’t load if I opened it, if I was in a call everyone would start sounding like a droid from star wars and streams wouldn’t load.
I thought this was only discord but then I tried to download a game on steam and it couldn’t download. The speed kept being around 50kb/s, for reference my internet speed is usually ~700mb/s (should be a gigabit but my pc doesn’t support that)
Since then multiple other websites have had this issue, such as streaming services (prime, netflix, etc) the weirdest part is, is that most other things work just fine. The steam storefront works fine, if I do a speed test I get normal speeds, online games work great. My issue does resolve itself later at night but often around 2-3am which is annoying since I often use my pc from 10-2
Tl;dr discord, steam downloads (but not store), streaming services, and similar websites / web based apps become super slow at night around 11pm but everything else works fine like google or online games and I get a normal speed on a speed test website, tends to fix itself around 2-3am.
I’ve tried (fixes I’ve found off Google):
- disabling ipv6
- changing dns
- pinging websites (works as expected)
- using wifi instead of Ethernet (same issue)
- trying different devices (works fine on my laptop and phone so it’s an issue with my pc)
- using a vpn (fixes it, but I don’t have a proper vpn outside of firefox, don’t trust free ones, and don’t want to pay for one)
No, I do not have any parental restrictions on my internet, no I do not use public internet like from an apartment or something, I run my own internet and don’t live in an apartment. Isp is telus, but I use ubiquiti for everything else, if that matters