Wireless internet just dropped to 5kb/s

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Phranq

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I'm not kidding, I feel like I'm back on dial-up. I was playing a game, and noticed it was lagging A LOT. So I decided to disable and turn the connection back on. The problem persisted so I restarted the computer. I'm currently running some spyware stuff, but I can't figure out why my connection just dropped out like that.

the wireless internet claims to be running fine (54mbps, "excellent" signal strength). I'm trying to think of things to do to potentially fix it. I don't have access to the router, so that's out the window.

edit: When I download things they literally top out at 5kb/s...
 
is this only happening when your wireless? Or does it happen when wired too?

EDIT: is this something like a campus wireless network? if so is it possible that your being throttled? I know my school has very strict bandwidth policies, no gaming, no p2p, no porn...etc. If they catch you doing it they throttle the shit out of your connection. If you keep doing it they MAC ban your ass.
 
This is indeed a university network. I don't have access to a wired connection, but I did last year on campus and BEAT THE CRAP out of the network and they didn't care.

I used to download 5gig files at 10mb/s last year, and play games etc. It's not against the rules, there's just policies like torrenting, no hosting servers, etc.

The internet seriously just imploded. I know it's not due to too many people on the network because almost no one else is back in school yet.
 
Phranq said:
This is indeed a university network. I don't have access to a wired connection, but I did last year on campus and BEAT THE CRAP out of the network and they didn't care.

I used to download 5gig files at 10mb/s last year, and play games etc. It's not against the rules, there's just policies like torrenting, no hosting servers, etc.

The internet seriously just imploded. I know it's not due to too many people on the network because almost no one else is back in school yet.
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Double check to make sure they haven't implemented new policies. WIth the RIAA and MPAA and their vigilante lawyers running around a lot of Universities are cracking down to cover their asses.
 
This is the only clause that could be stretched to fit playing a game:

Excessive use of programs for non academic purposes in a manner that taxes the system's resources.
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I highly doubt it's taxing their resources though, seeing as I know for a fact that you can reach speeds well over 10mb/s down on their connection.

edit: They took away my internet freshman year because I was downloading torrents (legal ones actually, they didn't even care), and I had to call them to have them turn it back on. On my page where it told me that I needed to call to get my internet back it doesn't mention any action taken against my account.
 
In cases like this the problem is often a router crapping out. Try this, Start > run > cmd > tracert www.yahoo.com Are there any high latency routers in the path? If not, trace route to the specific site which was running very slow. What do you see?
 
It came back before I could do that, but I've noticed that I can't ping or tracert on this network. I downloaded a thing called tcping and it let's me ping, I think there's a similar one for trace route, would that work as well?
 
Phranq said:
It came back before I could do that, but I've noticed that I can't ping or tracert on this network. I downloaded a thing called tcping and it let's me ping, I think there's a similar one for trace route, would that work as well?
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That would indicate if to can establish a TCP session, but it would provide the information you need to troubleshoot this issue. With tracert you can see every hop and the latency of that hop. Often you'll see a NAP router gagging, causing the performance hit for example. You could try a layer four tracert app.

Man, I've on a lot of restricted networks, but I've never seen one block out bound tracert?? Usually they block specific sites or they won't respond to PING. Things like that.
 
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