This! Never managed to get this achievement 😃

By pihole. Iirc the default limit is 1000 requests per minute

Have you checked if you’re rate limited? I was getting rate limited while downloading games from steam which took me several hours to debug.

Not sure if this is your problem but it might be a thing to check out.

crowdsec can be setup to configure your firewall so all incoming traffic will be filtered by the banlists.