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Good tip. I just tried with both and wasn't routed to a faster point of presence with either.

I'll add a traceroute from the phone and one from a device connected to the LTE router to the updates section next.

[update] Traceroutes added

It's definitely odd that you're getting routed across the country to an east coast pop. Ideally in your location you'd be routed to a west or central pop. Perhaps a bad combination of Cloudfront getting geolocation wrong for your IP range, and poor performance of at&t's network for that specific source-destination combination.

I found that odd as well, and my iPhone hotspot does get routed through a different list of hosts as you can see in the traceroute.

I suppose it should be noted. The iphone antenna and router antennas are no more than a meter from each other. They're unlikely to be hitting different towers.

What are you using for DNS?

On chrome-based mobile browsers your traceroutes are getting stuck in a small non scrollable iframe-type-thing.

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