Yes, Bitcoin confirmation times and rates has been the headache of many in recent weeks and I'm tempted to say that it is making our beloved cryptocurrency unpopular by the day and I hope the developers come up with something quick to remedy this situation so that the delays and monetization of Bitcoin will cease.
Well that's good idea to pay more fee for your transactions but in this isue how if the transactions was sent and the sender didn't remember to add more fees. I think it was too late to add more fees to get faster transactions.
Increasing can help but sometimes it takes longer time. this is just what i experience..
Now i am now changing the process and use the bitcoin transaction speeder. where i found in this forum sometimes its not working but most of them are working when i am sending bitcoin in other address..
I dont need to pay more high amount of fee.. here is the address where we can speed up https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/