Unbound with Pi-hole - slow internet

The issue I am facing:
I am experiencing significant reduction in speed (upload and download). It is less than 6Mbps
if I disable blocking and check the speed, it goes to 30Mbps +
it really hurts, when using Microsoft Teams

Details about my system:

  • Pi-hole [v5.13]
  • FTL [v5.18.2]
  • Web Interface [v5.16]
    unbound
    RPi-3b

What I have changed since installing Pi-hole:

Pi-hole has no impact on your internet speed. It is a DNS server only. Once a client has resolved a domain name to an IP, subsequent traffic between the client and the IP is directly between the LAN client and the router, with no involvement from Pi-hole.

You may be seeing an inaccurate speed test result, depending on which test server is being used. If your upstream DNS is not location aware, you could be getting a non-local IP that is slowing the test.

You could also be getting a distant IP for the teams software.

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