Well I'm definitely getting higher speed results after withdrawing from that privacy agreement (wasn't using any AI protection features at all though). Getting 270mbps~ downloads, still nowhere near my 490~mbps speeds but an improvement nonetheless.
Stumbled upon this thread while looking for potential reasons for the speed discrepancy between spdMerlin and regular web speedtesting (or even win64 speedtest CLI). Feared it might have something to do with hardware acceleration when I noticed the CPU usage when running spdMerlin.
Using a...