-- I also bought a vpn witch is one of the best ipvanish...

[mdk]

@rtotem1 -- I also bought a vpn witch is one of the best ipvanish 

If you are streaming through a VPN-server, it is quite possible that the VPN-server cannot keep-up with all the demands from all its customers, which results in "buffering" by your computer.

It's also quite possible that the content-provider for your streams is similarly overloaded, and cannot smoothly "push" the content towards you.

Experiment: disable the VPN-client, and see if that eliminates the buffering.

[rtotem1]

Hello  everyone please go to this site and read and u  will find out really what going on with  shaws SO CALLED FIBER PLUS, and what thottling is all about.https://broadbandnow.com/guides/am-i-being-throttled

[rtotem1]

Hello Grand Master please quit putting the blame on vpn servers and other servers like iptv own up to the lies that shaw is telling everybody about their fiber optic... please  read  https://broadbandnow.com/guides/am-i-being-throttled I think all th customer should read and ask  for a rebate or less monthly charges for the  SO CALLED FIBER PLUS shaw calls their network... IT SHOULD BE CALLED BROADBAND PLUS! 

[rtotem1]

those Hour are when we all get Throttled... because we are using broadbrand not Fibre Optic? Shaw Fiber optic is a broadband cable attached to a  fiber cable miles away ... so how can we  have Fiber  optic . please  go to website and find the  truth. https://www.cvalley.net/fiber-optic-cable-vs-coaxial-cable-which-is-better

[g-idk]

Hi @rtotem1 , just read the 2 articles and they don't exactly say what you are trying to point out. The first link is an american site that is talking about american isp's and the fact that some not all (might be doing it) and there solution for you to check on it is too buy a vpn service and then run comparable speed tests, this sounds like someone trying to sell me a vpn.  The second site is about comparing full 100% Fiber from isp's origin to your home vs. full 100% coxial cable from isp's origin to your home.  Since Shaw is a hybrid system this comparison is not factual for comparison.  Shaw has never ever advertised that they are 100% Fiber optic from start to your home.  You seem to think that everyone is being scammed and that we have all been fooled into thinking we have 100%Fiber, guess what 99.9% of us already know that Shaw is only a hybrid system and we were never sold on the premise that it is a 100% Fibre optic line that will now be installed in your home, instead of the coxial cable that is already installed in almost every apt./home/business in Canada, that's why the so-called last mile is coxial cable from the neighbourhood node to your home and the rest of the system beyond the node is all your beloved Fibre.  I don't understand how you could have thought Shaw was 100%Fiber optics.

[mdk]

@rtotem1 -- that BroadBandNow article has several inaccuracies.  Example:

 it’s important to re-run an internet speed test on a VPN to get an untampered reading. A VPN is an encrypted connection that acts as a secure tunnel for users to send and receive data on public networks. With a VPN, the content you view online will be encrypted and hidden from your ISP.

When using a VPN, your "speed-test" traffic goes from your computer, over Shaw's network, to the IP-address of the VPN-server, and then from that server to the actual speed-test web-site. Obviously, this is likely to be a longer and SLOWER "path" than when NOT using a VPN.

Without a VPN, your computer is using the secure-HTTP protocol to encrypt/decrypt your connection to sites such as YouTube.  So, why encrypt an already-encrypted stream?

Note that your ISP will know that you are using secure-HTTP to connect to port 443/TCP on the content-server, even though the streamed traffic is encrypted.  So, theoretically, the ISP can "throttle", based on your use of that port, unless your VPN-client avoids using that port.

Note that Shaw advertises as "Fibre+", using that spelling, not the "Fiber" spelling.

[mdk]

@rtotem1 -- there are some debatable statements on that CVALLEY site.  Example:

the data speed provided by coaxial cables can’t compete with the speed of fiber. 

While this statement may be true, the biggest factor in your Internet speed is your monthly spending -- you will pay much less for Shaw "Fibre+ 10" than you will pay for "Fibre+ Gig 1.5".  So, while the capability of multi-gigabit-per-second speeds is there, what speed can you afford?

Plus, note that content-servers, such as YouTube, are busy, serving content over their outgoing network connections to hundreds or even thousands of simultaneous computer users.  So, their "outgoing" connections are "saturated" -- even if you have "ultra-fast" Internet, those content-servers are not supplying that content.  Compare to driving your Ferrari to the local Tim Hortons -- you cannot use the full horsepower of the Ferrari, and the queue of customers at the Tim Hortons is no shorter, because you drove there in your "fast" vehicle.  In this case, the "throttling" is on the content-server, not on Shaw's "backbone" network.