Any work around Packet Shaping?

[imported_Skorpio]

Hi guys, I live in a dorm which runs on a t1 or t3 connection. The problem is that they use packet shaping. so I get very slow downloads connections all the time including ftp servers, games, bittorent..etc etc etc.

I mean ...this is way slower than my dsl at home and could get as slow and worse as free internet on 56k.

Although they deny that they are using packet shaping, I dont believe it.

Is there any work around packet shaping?

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Skorpio,

Please do not post to find ways to defeat your school's network limits. It is their network. If you use it, you play by their rules.

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[n0cmonkey]

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[loup garou]

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[Garion]

Keep in mind that you probably have everyone in your dorms sharing that connection. Get a couple of hundred (maybe thousand) kids that come to school and discover BitTorrent and P2P downloads and you're talking about a massive amount of traffic.

Keep in mind that a T1, while sounding fast, is really only about 1/2 of the speed of the average cable modem. Doesn't take too many people to saturate it.

Perhaps your question should be "Why aren't you using packet shaping to minimze the impact of all the unimportant traffic (P2P, etc) and prioritize the important stuff (Web, etc.)"


- G