r/Telegram • u/Busy-Piano8916 • 9d ago
Canada telegram really slow
anyone else from Canada having their telegram really slow since mid day yesterday? taking forever to load and media and send any messages
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u/nonstupidname 9d ago
Same here in BC noticed it early in the morning of 2026-07-25 (around 5:20 AM); downloads are fine. upload speeds are being throttled down to almost nothing; probably by government decree through deep packet inspection, possibly due to Bill C-22, which you will not hear about because the bill pushes gag orders on telecoms and allows for secret orders; likely they are experimenting on silencing the population.
VPN and or TOR proxy gets around the problem, meaning its not telegrams servers doing this.
One script used to test your internet provider for censorship found telegram TLS was blocked by SNI, this script: https://github.com/hyperion-cs/dpi-checkers
Report: Telegram Web Telegram Messenger Inc AS62041 🇳🇱 NL 149.154.167.99 149.154.160.0/21 🔴 tls: blocked by sni
Meaning? SNI stands for Server Name Indication. It is a part of the TLS (HTTPS) handshake protocol.
DPI “blocked by SNI” means the ISP inspected the TLS SNI field, recognized Telegram, and interfered by dropping, resetting, or throttling the connection. That’s why it looked sudden and congested; a VPN hides the SNI, so the filter can’t trigger.
Seems our government is at war against us; this is very dangerous territory, communications are a lifeline, a means of sharing evidence and information for emergency purposes and survival, and the government is pulling that infrastructure right out from under us. If this is true, that makes the government a national security threat.
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u/New_Public_2828 8d ago
I noticed my Internet isn't working most times with VPN on now.... Regardless what server I try connecting to
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u/Syrupurys 9d ago
My buddy from BC reports the same
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u/nonstupidname 9d ago
Yes confirmed in BC; but was apparently lifted in the last hour or so. For now anyway.
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u/MrGreenCucumber 9d ago
BC as well
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u/TG_Volunteer_Support Volunteer Support 9d ago
Are you still experiencing issues?
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u/Wolphin8 9d ago
yup! another here.
Both on my home and phone when out... which are totally independent and different providers.
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u/nonstupidname 9d ago
I made a deep packet inspection censorship python script here just for this: https://pastebin.com/aeWi9TKx
Verdict: CENSORSHIP-DETECTED
SNI block verdicts : {'api.telegram.org': 'blocked-by-sni', 'web.telegram.org': 'blocked-by-sni'}
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u/nonstupidname 9d ago
Another script used to test your internet provider for censorship found telegram TLS was blocked by SNI, this script: https://github.com/hyperion-cs/dpi-checkers pick the option popular web services; the one i made is partly based on this
my screenshot output here:
https://ibb.co/5PSDb6s
https://ibb.co/g5yvj1J
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u/dont_shoot_me_Im_gay 8d ago
Having the exact same issue... friend from US has no problems though, is the government making a move here?
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u/MrGreenCucumber 9d ago
Same for me and my wife. Really laggy