A Question For the Folks at Rogers.

I'm no fan of telecom providers in Canada, but there's no evidence in these pics to show Rogers doing anything of the sort.

You don't say what the other VPN is, or how it's configured.
two of your tests are on a non-rogers network
your "bad" test exits in ottawa on Bell networks

On behalf of Rogers (not really), I believe I can answer this as follows:

Fuck you, give us more money!

Answer? You don't even need to ask any questions for them to yell this at you.

How do you know it’s Rogers and not the secure core vpn?

Wtf is a 'secure core' vpn?

secure core’ vpn It's a Proton system that is designed to fortify online privacy by routing traffic through privacy-friendly countries before it exits to the public internet. Harder to track means less ad revenue for the corp - boo hoo - so they throttle the hell out of users to drive them away and protect their ad revenue stream to track-able "clients" who foot the bill for this malfeasance.
- Well your only going to be as fast as the slowest server in that chain, with all the latency/any dropped packets/etc. driving down your speeds. Also, if it's built for security it almost certainly isn't prioritizing speed test traffic of all things.
- Looking at the ping you saw with Secure Core, this makes perfect sense. It's routing your packets out of the country and back through who knows how many stops. The other VPN you're testing is in your same city and adds basically no extra latency. You can't really blame Rogers for this, they're just following the laws of physics.
- Literally nothing in this quote makes any sense. It's 100% bullshit FUD that these sketchy VPN companies use to convince non-technical people to use them, like virus scanners back in the day.
  Your ISP doesn't get any ad revenue or tamper with your traffic. Everything is HTTPS encrypted now and cannot be modified by your ISP (at least without you seeing a giant warning in your browser). Your ISP has nothing to do with the ads you see on the web.
- Rogers has no way to distinguish between Proton's "secure core" VPN and a simpler, more local Proton VPN endpoint. In both cases they see you sending encrypted VPN traffic to Proton - they can't see where Proton then sends that traffic next (naturally, because it's a VPN). If Proton's "secure core" VPN is slow but Proton's other options are fast then that's on Proton.
It's a Proton VPN service, where they hop you through multiple servers. I guess OP assumes this is a thing for all VPNs? Or they are calling servers, VPNs.
But they are testing between different Proton VPN servers, one with "Secure Core" and one without.

Passes their traffic through literally the other side of the world
Speed plummets
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Based on your explanation of secure core, are you sure it's not a case of the middle server being temporarily unavailable?

Also this morning there was a major Amazon Web Services outage so there's a possibility of it having downstream effects.

Holy throttling Batman! That's pretty radical!