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Is there anyway I can hog the (shared) bandwidth from my ISP?

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LivinLaVivaPollo

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I live in university sponsored off campus housing, and the internet here sucks horribly. Basically, about fifty of us are sharing a 3 meg line, and people constantly hog it up. Looking at the bandwidth graphs, both the downstream and upstream are completely maxed out at 3 megs all the time.

I talked to the Resnet manager and basically he said there is nothing he can do if people are using file sharing applications and completely saturating the line, and that all I could do was spread the word around here that using file sharing applications would ruin the network for everyone. Of course no one is going to care, even if I was to become the neighborhood bandwidth nazi.

What is weird is that if I try to download things, it really isn't that slow, even when the graphs show that the line is maxed. Doing a speed test, I can get about 20 KB/s down, and about 150 KB/s up, even if the graphs show that the lines are maxed, which means the bandwidth management software is allocating some bandwidth for me when I request it, correct? But whenever I use programs that are less bandwidth intensive, but more latency intensive, mainly games, like World of Warcraft, my ping hovers around 5000 ms. 🙁

So, anyone know of a method out there to constantly pull a small amount of bandwidth so I can use it to play WoW? Or is that impossible? :frown:
 
Yes, when you're requesting bandwidth, the equipment (I'm guessing its a multiplexor or some type), it will splice up the pipe for you. For instance. If you were on a 64k/channel line and I hopped on, it would then divinde the line into two seperate 32k lines. Then, if another 2 people hopped on, we would be down to 16/person. Make sense?

now, the reason you're getting so much more upstream than down, is because the majority of on-line activity from those other 49 users is downloading data (even from the P-to-P file sharers). So, it sorta makes sense you're getting 150k up and 20k down.

Now, as far as something you can do? Not unless you can thorttle everyone bandwidth from an administrative point of view, which you dont have that kind of access. You're just going to have to hop on at 3am it looks.
 
If you're off campus and don't mind spending $30 - $50 a month you can get your own dsl or cable connection. 3mbps all to yourself.
 
Yeah, I'm on contract until June. There really isn't another way to get an ISP other than Resnet where I live, because they own the network here unfortunately.
 
as far as technicals go, there's nothing you can really do other than request that whoever manages resnet implement some sort of QoS measures to prioritize non-p2p traffic and eventually starve people using p2p down.
 
latencies generally go through the roof when you max out a line, especially if you're maxing the upload, ESPECIALLY if you're doing it with lots of indivdual threads. it's made much worse by the fact that your particular data threads are only several of TONS. if it was just one person maxing it, you'd still get fast latencies. but pile a bunch of stuff on there at once and it all goes to pieces (pun intended). there's really not much you can do. just too many people on that line, period.
 
That's weird that the Resnet manager won't do anything about it. At UCDavis, they were actively going after file sharers and shutting off their internet connections.
 
HAR HAR HAR!

But RIT is even worst far from what I think. I believe the computers at Resnet have its own script with list of all students living in residence halls. They tracked me and disconnected me twice for not updating Windows to SP2 and disconnected me for wasting too much bandwidth once. I just had to go to Resnet office to get my account reinstated.

But hey, I love RIT's dual OC3 connections.
 
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