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Network Slowness

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dchwdude

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I am at college right now, and the IT department is being stupid about fixing any problems (as I have heard). Anyways, what could be the explanation for dropping a downl;oad spped that much, and my ping in HL2DM and CS:S going from an average of 50-100 to 1500-2000? Needless to say it IS anoying. And, it only seems to be my room, and the people on the other side of the wall who have this problem . . .

This seems to be a nice forum. . .I think I will like it here!
 
well really it is impossible to tell unless we know their infrastructure.

Run a ping test to your default gateway with "ping <ip of gateway> -t"

In a modern LAN that should aways be 1 ms or less, with no drops, no exceptions.

My guess would be some kind of access-list or rate-limiter that your IP got thrown into. then again the fact that it affects only a very smal physical area means it may be cabling related.
 
Okay . . but I am stuck in linux right now, and it seems to be MUCH faster . . . but I cant get back into windows. I will start a new thread for that. I researched the IT site, and could not see anything that would make it so my bandwidth would get limited. Its kinda weird. Everyone here seems to be plating WoW all the time, and botting it at night(yes, i know thats bad). could that be hijacking all of my bandwidth? Sorry that this is kinda vague . . . .
 
then at this point the only people who can help are the uni's staff.

If local stuff zips right along, but internet does not then it is something in their internet infrastructure (firewalls, routing, packet shapers, access lists, etc)
 
If that's the case show them all you've done to help.

pings and traceroute don't help much troubleshooting throughput, but we did find out that you don't have a latency or packet drop problem. If local file transfers are not slow, then it probably isn't the cabling.

The best thing to do is narrow it down "local is fine", going to the internet is not.

Also try hooking up to a gamin server that is local to your network and see if the symptoms remain (either that or actually study). If not then its the internet.

Do keep in mind that a lot of universities will throttle people down to extremely slow levels if that move too much through the very expensive internet connection. You get placed into a "penalty" situation, hoping that you get so frustrated that you'll simply stop moving so much data. It works exteremly well actually.
 
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