Anybody have this problem with their college internet?

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

My speed at 7am

My speed at 1:30pm

Is this caused by increased traffic? It's crap from about noon until maybe 4am or so, I haven't stayed on long enough to find out once it starts up again. I'm at UW-Madison btw.

 

[KEV1N]

Yep, if a lot of people are downloading stuff then your bandwith will suffer

 

[vi edit]

One of two things, network is over stressed, or the admins have put some sort of bandwith capping policy in place for certain hours of the day.

 

[TallBill]

thank god i have dsl at my dorm.. so i dont feel that affect to much

 

[LanEvoVI]

Ouch...when I lived in the dorm it was never THAT bad...but it got pretty slow at some times during the day...

 

[ThunderGirl]

708 kbps download
236 kbps upload

is that good?

edit: n/m looks pretty sucky compared to other users w/ same company.. hmmmmmm how do I find out if it is my computer or their problem?

 

[tokamak]

if we go over 3.0 gb transfer per week, we get put on a secondary, much crappier network that i'm told is much worse than even a 56k modem.

 

[KevinMU1]

708k/bps download?? that's really good compared to here (Miami U of Ohio)... I think people here would probably kill for such speeds. What's odd is we can d/l from MS or other "big" sites at like 350k/bps, but smaller sites not so well. Course, we have a packet shaper, so who knows how it's setting up the traffic.

But yes, the speeds fluctuate based on the time of day, I learned long ago I should get big files when I wake up at 8/8:30 am on the weekends.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: tokamak
if we go over 3.0 gb transfer per week, we get put on a secondary, much crappier network that i'm told is much worse than even a 56k modem.

Modeled after Windogg's penalty hub no doubt...



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