New PC - Games are running quickly but browsers and YouTube running slow (fixed)

I am making this post, not to ask for help but to possibly provide help to anyone else that may run into this bizarre issue.

My husband and I decided to get a new PC for our Birthdays/Christmas. This included the PC itself (all new parts), two monitors, and a new desk.

Games, including ones connecting to the Internet, were running smoothly and had little to no issues. However, we were running into issues when it came to internet browsers and more specifically, YouTube videos.

For whatever reason, YouTube was slow and videos were choosing 144p as the preferred quality and any adjustment caused the video to buffer and lag like crazy. This was across multiple videos and creators.

We tried running both monitors with DP cables, unplugging the second monitor, upping the priority on the browser, making sure all the stuff with the PC was up to date, etc, etc, etc. and nothing worked.

Our friend, who was helping us, brought up that it could just be server issues. But I wasn't sure how all of our other devices could be running fine if that were the case until I remembered a lot of our devices are connected to a VPN. I asked if connecting to a VPN could help, he said no. Well, I decided to do it anyway because I honestly didn't see how it could get much worse than a connection speed of 514kbps when we have fiber internet.

So, I connected to our VPN and switched from the Dallas servers to Denver and voila, videos are now playing at 1080p, 178475kbps, and browsers are running quicker with no buffering or lagging.

All that to say, if you are having issues with your PC running games perfectly fine but YouTube videos and Internet browsers are running slow, try a VPN.

We literally scoured the Internet looking for a solution and nothing worked other than that.

Internet: Fiber (700+ upload and download)

Internet connection: Ethernet

- PC specs -

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5 GHz 8-Core Processor

Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX ATX AM5 Motherboard

Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card