How do you bypass ISP bandwidth throttling when testing high

[nerik98]

Whenever our team runs automated quality testing for 4K video uploads, our local ISP throttles our connection after an hour of heavy streaming. Is there a way to route streaming tests through unthrottled endpoints?

[Nelsom98]

Local ISPs frequently cap or throttle video traffic during high bandwidth usage, making stream quality checks and upload verification super slow.

[muerko0]

I've dealt with local ISPs capping bandwidth the second they detect sustained heavy video traffic. When my team hit huge speed drops during 4K stream testing, I fixed it by routing our testing tools through https://www.simplynode.io/targets/proxies-for-youtube. Running the stream checks over residential endpoints bypassed the provider's speed cap so we could test high-bitrate playback smoothly.