College internet

[UN0]

I'm on my colleges internet and it runs day of defeat terribly and when I connect to ventrilo everything is delayed on there by 10 seconds to even 30 seconds.
Sooo I ran this bandwidthplace.com speed test and it says my communications speed is 2.1 megabits per second (I ran it a couple times and the highest I got was 2.9) it also said it took me 4 seconds to download a 1MB file...and isn't like really good DSL 1.5mbp???
I'm confused because web surfing etc...is perfectly fine and really fast I was wondering if maybe the firewall at my school might have something to do with the performance of these programs like maybe it monitors these ports? And if I could maybe talk to one of the networking guys here and ask if they could maybe give me unrestricted access to these ports?? I have no idea somebody in the know care to help?

Oh and if it makes any difference I play Day of Defeat (it's a half life mod) and i've played competitively for a couple years but this recently has become a HUGE problem for me

 

[Malk-a-mite]

And if I could maybe talk to one of the networking guys here and ask if they could maybe give me unrestricted access to these ports?

Get ahold of your network admin team, resnet admin or whatever they call it. Chances are the answer is no, but you won't know until you ask.

 

[dekard]

You've got to ask the networking folks for the answers.

 

[Malk-a-mite]

dekard -

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1026346800#post1026346800

 

[XOR != OR]

Get ahold of your network admin team, resnet admin or whatever they call it. Chances are the answer is no, but you won't know until you ask.

Yup. Were I you, i'd just see what's available in your area for wireless internet ( I've got two providers in my area alone ).

 

[Astrogiblet]

"Really good DSL" is like 10 mb/s. I have 6mb/s here at my house.

"Really good Cable" can be up to 20mb/s.

So 2.9mb/s is pretty slow.

 

[Astrogiblet]

Yup. Were I you, i'd just see what's available in your area for wireless internet ( I've got two providers in my area alone ).

Yea, because thats going to be faster then 2.9mb/s.

Wireless is gonna lag you in games pretty good.

 

[XOR != OR]

Yea, because thats going to be faster then 2.9mb/s.

Wireless is gonna lag you in games pretty good.

It's not that bad actually. One of the companies around here have a ping time from me of around 40ms.

Satalite will suck balls, but the wireless broadband companies aren't that bad ( clear wire and fire2wire around these parts ).

 

[UN0]

well, can anyone actually pinpoint my problem here? is it the firewall? what is it?

 

[Glacian22]

Out of curiousity, which college is this? It's just interesting to see which have the best net connections. The best I've found so far is Brandeis, got 7MB/s downstream on a regular basis when I was there

 

[infiniti029]

Out of curiousity, which college is this? It's just interesting to see which have the best net connections. The best I've found so far is Brandeis, got 7MB/s downstream on a regular basis when I was there

1618 Kb/s / 477 Kb/s on the Speakeasy speed test (NJIT).

 

[Stormscape]

Dude wow. I got better internet at home.
2.7mbps down 650kbps up average, I pay for 3mbps down 768kbps up.

 

[dekard]

dekard -

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1026346800#post1026346800

thanks for the friendly reminder. I wasn't suggesting any illicit workarounds, rather that he contact his networking folks for advice. I'll clean up the post anyway since its not crystal clear.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

well, can anyone actually pinpoint my problem here? is it the firewall? what is it?

Most college networks now have traffic shaping going on, quality of service. Web traffic is given the priority....as far as the school is concerned, primary purpose for the school network is homework, research, etc. So it's most likely not a problem, just...the way it is.

Peer to peer traffic, and gaming traffic, can EASILY bring a network to its knees. It doesn't matter how fat the pipes are. So....many are now implementing devices that give web traffic the high priority, everything else stands in back of the line...able to move when nothing else is going on.

 

[Ladicius]

Dude wow. I got better internet at home.
2.7mbps down 650kbps up average, I pay for 3mbps down 768kbps up.

How old are you? You go to college to learn, not to play games, so their main focus isn't the speed of the internet, but can you use it to do your school work in a timely and efficient manner.

Now, my college had a blazing 5kb/s download rate and a speedy 5kb/s upload rate, be thankful you can access the outside world. I didn't get to download, or play, anything for 2 years.

 

[movax]

My uni just traffic-shaped/packet-sniffed things to hell. I turned to SSH for the answer...

 

[BillLeeLee]

You're probably being limited, that's what my school (and a host of others) did for certain types of traffic, such as P2P.

I could download from the net at 5 MB/s, upload at the same, but anything outside the AUP (like P2P) would be brought to a standstill. If you really can't stand it (and for sure network operations won't make exceptions because the network is an academic resource used by the entire campus, not just you), see if you can get a separate cable/dsl connection. They don't have jurisdiction over that.

At least your school isn't as draconian as the college my friend went to. They were so limited/restricted that they would download via HTTP at about 3 KB/s.

 

[bob]

well, can anyone actually pinpoint my problem here? is it the firewall? what is it?

Run a tracert to something like google.com and see what the latency is like. Thats going to tell you more about lag in games than bandwidth.

on the start-bar, go to run then type CMD. Type in " tracert www.google.com ", take a screenshot of what (if anything) is listed.

 

[Malk-a-mite]

well, can anyone actually pinpoint my problem here? is it the firewall? what is it?

Yes, most of the forum can pinpoint the problem, and just about everyone already told you how to solve the problem.

Talk to your NetAdmins.