When an ISP or national firewall throttles or blocks Telegram, the usual advice is "use a VPN." But there's a lighter, Telegram-specific tool that is often more resilient and far simpler for end users: the MTProto proxy with FakeTLS.
DPI vs. Telegram
Deep Packet Inspection classifies traffic by its protocol fingerprint. A plain MTProto stream or a naive proxy is easy to spot and drop. The trick is to make the connection look like something completely ordinary.
How FakeTLS works
MTProto is Telegram's own transport protocol. FakeTLS wraps it so the wire looks like a normal TLS 1.3 handshake to a real website:
