• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

uploading problems on the network

2

2cool4u

Senior member
I haven't been able to upload to my webspace here at school past 50 kb/sec. This is what i get on my computer in my room running a thunderbird 1.33 ghz and XP pro. I have a Linksys 10/100 ethernet card. My girlfriend on the otherhand gets upwards of 600 kb/sec from her room across campus on a 1 ghz & XP pro and some generic ethernet card. Any clue to why i am getting such crappy speeds? I just got a new ultraspeed Cat 5 ethernet cable so that's not the problem. Any ideas would be appreciated
 
Check with your local sysadmin to make sure he hasn't capped your upload speeds, sometimes that is done for different reasons.
 
Universities and colleges often have different areas of campus wired differently. Your area might be on a shared 10 Mb pipe while others are on a switched 100 Mb. As we all know shared 10 is evil and switched 100 is godly (unless you add things like gigabit into the equation 😉 )
 
Normally when dealing with internet uploads/downloads even the crappiest PC with a 10Mbit card can upload/faster than what their pipe can carry. So your upload issues have nothing to do with your RIG specs. You are going to want and see what kind of pipe you are connected to and how much upload you have been granted...

Since you are in a college..ever think of running a UT server?????
 
what's a UT server? i tried running a server from an old comp but i think the school has some sort of firewall on us that i dont know how to get around because no one could connect to it. Another friend of mine tried setting up an FTP server as well with no luck with people getting on. Any clue on how to get around this?
 
Universities like that often use Private IP's (IE 172.16 or 192.168) and then translate them into an external IP address. Visit www.grc.com and go to "Shields Up" then scroll down to "Shields up" again. This will tell you your external IP if you are in fact in the situation I described. have people connect to that IP (Note: it will probably change frequently). This is where firewalls come in. The admins may have blocked certain ports, so this may all be in vain.
 
thanks i checked it out but it gives me the ip adress that i was using. I did the probe and it said that my computer is not recognizable to sanners and that it doesn't exist on the net...could that be the problem. I think that has something to do with the school's firewall.
 
Firewall is a definite possibility. Only way to be sure is ask someone who has authority over the network there.
 
And they'll most likely tell you no.

Sort of what I tell the 10 students I get a week who call and ask if I can open such and such a port for their gaming/ftp/sharing needs.

"Sorry, the network provided is for education purposes only. If you would like to run your own servers there are many public ISP's out there that would be happy to have your business."
 
There is not going to be a way around the schools firewall if they have one in place :-(

Can anyone recommend where I could go and find a place that would host such a game server.... 🙂
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top