r/Internet

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

As the title says, what if I wanted to give everyone an involuntary break from the internet, how far could I get before getting caught an how feasible of a goal is it? Would I need to target specific servers etc?

There's a ton of shady stuff happening all around but what's an app or site that just seems like it's collecting or asking too much info. Could be insane permissions or creepy ads or constant tracking, weird account requirements, just a bad feeling overall. What's an app you don't trust to use?

hello y’all I’m new to all this shortcut/difficult words/internet stuff

id like to know what a DNS, IP ADDRESS AND VPN’s are.

not completely new either but I would like to know how all that confusing stuff work.

If this subreddit isn’t the right place to ask can you please link or just say on what I should post all this.

Thanks for the help (not posted yet but I thought it would be nice to add the thank)

i also searched the internet for over an hour so I hope this respects the rules

Edit: automod said I had to specify what country I’m in, for privacy reasons I will not say exactly what country, but I can say I’m from the northwestern part of Europe (Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Northern France, parts of or all of Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland). although I could be more specific

The internet has become a painful corpo/gov thing to use and no longer any fun can be had on it. Everything is constantly moderated, checked, double checked, tripled checked etc... When 99% of people just want to browse in peace. The buzzword I see everywhere is "secure" yeah to me that means fuck all most of the time it means you use https instead of http... But everything has to be secure(d) as if suddenly the internet would collapse overnight if it wasn't.

Am I the only one feeling that way?

Edit I don't get the downvotes oh well it's reddit after all can't expect deep thought

I don't know if this is the right sub for this but regardless

is there any excuse or reasoning for internet companies in a country to force their users on limited wifi quotas every month? cuz i really want to know at least one legitimate reasoning or I'll go insane

like why do i have to pay them for every gigabyte i use?

I would like to personally congratulate Airtel for achieving what modern physics could not:

The spontaneous disappearance of 3.3TB of internet in 7 days.

For months since October, Airtel has been informing me that my household is apparently running NASA, Netflix India, and a secret cryptocurrency mining farm from my living room.

According to them, I keep “overutilizing” my unlimited broadband.

Unlimited, of course, in the same way a buffet is unlimited until someone decides you chew too aggressively.

So last month, because I briefly experienced one rare month of peace, I upgraded my plan from ₹589 to ₹943.

A bold move.
A foolish move.
A financially educational move.

And then exactly 7 days later…

Poof.

Speed gone.

I called customer care.

Their response?
“Sir, you have exhausted your 3.3TB data.”

Now let me explain my ultra-dangerous setup:

• 3 phones
• 1 laptop
• 2 TVs (used less than my will to call Airtel support)
• 1 camera
• 1 desktop that is basically decorative furniture

This is not a tech park.
This is a normal household.

So I did what Airtel’s backend team apparently does not:
Math.

A 1.5GB mobile pack under extreme abuse (reels addiction + YouTube + doomscrolling) lasts around 4–5 hours.

Now Airtel says I consumed 3,300GB.

To finish that much data, even at absurdly high broadband usage, my family would need to:

• Watch Netflix on multiple TVs
• Scroll Instagram reels like it is a government job
• Code continuously
• Stream videos
• Possibly contact aliens

For nearly 59 hours per day.

Yes.

59 hours.
In one 24-hour day.

Airtel has officially discovered time travel.

Either:

1. My house exists in multiple dimensions,
2. Airtel thinks I do not understand numbers, or
3. My Wi-Fi is being used by the Avengers.

Every complaint gets the same magical line:
“Our backend team will contact you within 4 hours.”

These 4 hours, however, are measured in Airtel Standard Time — a mysterious timeline where accountability does not exist.

At this point, I do not need customer support.
I need:

• A data leak investigation
• A Netflix documentary
• Or NASA to verify whether my router is powering satellites

“Unlimited internet” should not feel like a magician’s trick where your data disappears, and everyone acts surprised.

So thank you, Airtel.

Not for the internet,
but for teaching me that in India, even terabytes can vanish faster than customer care promises.

I am now preparing to switch ISPs before Airtel informs me that I somehow consumed the internet reserves of South Asia overnight.

As I continue to see modern content, I get a sense that people are deciding to stay or scroll away within seconds. Short form content has conditioned audiences to view content at lightning speed, and I genuinely feel that attention is now one of the most difficult aspects to attain on the internet.

What is really intriguing is that attention is no longer solely about the quality of the content being created. Even when a video has good content, if the hook, pacing, and storytelling fail to capture the viewer's attention immediately, the viewer may not stick around to view the entire piece of content. As a result, today's creators and editors appear to be focusing more on retaining audiences and understanding audience psychology rather than simply visual aesthetics.

Do you believe that short-form content has permanently impacted audience behaviour in regard to how they consume content or this is simply an interim point in which content producers are modifying their approach to create longer-form content?

Case #63754

as post title stated, Ziply trenched our road a year and a half ago, unearthed bedrock that stabilized our road, created high spots that limited water egress and ruined our road.

we have communicated, here, on the phone and by email, nothing sticks and at this point have all but given up.

if you come here like I did to find help, don’t bother and just go after them, call the county for permit and bond hold.

it’s the only thing that got them to react, but they still did nothing even thought the county recommended they fix it.

they wore my whole block down,12 homes affected and they could are less.

At this point, taking care of the 1/8 mile by hand, on my time.

ziply is honestly the worst for this, 1.5 years of disruption to cut a corner and trench vs. drill.

I wish we would have sued them, right away.

case number included so we can skip the step where they act like they care, and ask me to connect with them outside of this tread.