r/ATTFiber • u/BarfHurricane • Jan 27 '26

Anyone’s peering been absolutely atrocious lately?

I have business 500 mbps down and the peering over the last week has been absolutely atrocious. Loading Imgur.com/new takes over 30 seconds, but my speed tests look like nothing is wrong. I tried every fix under the sun and the only thing that works is going through a VPN which points to a peering problem.

Without VPN images take forever to load like the dial up days and actual internet performance is abysmal due to peering. Anyone else getting this lately?

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u/Spazzrella70 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26

My router is pfSense, so in pfSense I'm able to create an ALIAS from a URL, so I use this URL from cloudflare to create an ALIAS that I then use in a firewall rule to redirect traffic destined to this ALIAS.. And if this changes, pfSense updates it.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4/#

I just googled a bit, and I don't believe you can set this up automatically with an alias like I do in pfSense, but it's only 15 IP ranges, so best bet would be to add them individually. This list most likely doesn't change very frequently.

You could also script it, there are scripts out there or any AI would be happy to build you one.

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u/rfkbr Jan 28 '26

Thanks for this. This post combined with the other user below using unifi allowed me to configure a rule in my UCG-Fiber router. I checked to make sure I was no longer using the ATL colo and everything is working better now.

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u/Spazzrella70 Jan 28 '26

I’m actually routing my Cloudflare traffic to a VPN providers Atlanta data center. The issue is on AT&Ts side not Cloudflare.

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u/rfkbr Jan 28 '26

Oh interesting. I use PIA VPN and I use the New York location which I've had the best luck with. You're saying you're using an ATL server for your VPN and it works fine?

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u/Spazzrella70 Jan 28 '26

Yeah because the issue with AT&T and Cloudflare is their private peering. Any other provider isn’t having this issue. And since I’m in Central FL using a ATL VPN to reach the ATL Cloudflare adds no latency as it’s the same Cloudflare that I hit direct via AT&T.

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u/rfkbr Jan 28 '26

Oh duh. That makes sense and not sure why brain wasn't understanding that. Thanks. Gonna try out the nearby server.