Very slow page loads with QUIC enabled

Hi, I am experiencing very slow page loads, as a visitor with QUIC HTTP/3 enabled on sites that use Cloudflare. I am located in Montreal and my ISP is AS5769 Videotron Telecom Ltee. Images load exeptionally slow, as if I was on a dial-up connection.

Disabling QUIC in Chrome flags downgrades my connection to HTTP/2 and pages load normally. If I disable IPv6 on my NIC the issue dissapears as well.

I also tried WARP with QUIC enabled in Chrome which loads normally. I also tried tethering to my phone on Rogers LTE which also works fine. My issue only persists on my home Videotron connection when IPv6 is enabled. Perhaps there is an issue between Cloudflare and Videotron?

Pages affected:

  • https://www.audiosciencereview.com/
  • https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/genelec-8361a-review-powered-monitor.28039/ (This page is blank for 20 seconds before anything is displayed and takes 1.6 minutes to fully load the images.)
  • https://ifi-audio.com/

Both domains point to the same IPs on Cloudflare’s network.

Using nslookup, both domains point to:
IPv6: 2606:4700:130:436c:6f75:6466:6c61:7265
IPv4: 172.64.80.1

Here are the traces.

fl=649f167
h=www.audiosciencereview.com
ip=2607:fa49:cf42:b500:317e:906d:987c:6c2c
ts=1679440710.228
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=EWR
sliver=none
http=http/3
loc=CA
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
rbi=off
kex=X25519
fl=649f87
h=ifi-audio.com
ip=2607:fa49:cf42:b500:317e:906d:987c:6c2c
ts=1679440683.24
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=EWR
sliver=none
http=http/3
loc=CA
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
rbi=off
kex=X25519

Another trace from another site running on Cloudflare. This one takes several minutes to load.

fl=649f173
h=www.dx-world.net
ip=2607:fa49:cf42:b500:ac0e:e985:38b8:8b56
ts=1679503047.752
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
colo=EWR
sliver=none
http=http/3
loc=CA
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off
rbi=off
kex=X25519

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