The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: fatty on September 05, 2004, 01:01:55 PM
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: fatty on September 05, 2004, 01:01:55 PM
well. i have moved into my dorm. i am liking it here so far. i hop on lunixmonster to try out the new patch, and check the connection i get. 270-300 constant ping. :(
i am a spoiled american kid. i have never had to play with ping this high. i find myself dying to marines when i normally would have landed my 3 bites in time.
*weeps*
does anyone have any ideas at all? or am i screwed? i don't want to be ness or one of you crazy euros!
:(
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: Sydney Carton on September 05, 2004, 01:07:43 PM
You're screwed. Our campus had a crappy wireless connection for a long time and every time it would rain or snow (constantly) my connection would shoot up into the 3000's. On lucky days, I got 300 continuously.
They upgraded and now I get around 100 standard with it shooting up to 300 on bad days. I'm at Penn State's main campus for this semester, so I'm getting crazy like 21 pings all the time. It's great.
Anyway, there's really no way around it unless there's an artificial bandwidth limitation or something being placed on it, and then you can complain to ITS, but it probably won't get anywhere.
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: LochNess on September 05, 2004, 01:20:05 PM
what college, what kinda connection do they have, and what kind of proxy/firewall setup do they have? if you find another techy kid who goes there and knows alot about the system he might be able to tweak something for you. all i kno is at my college there wasnt enuf bandwidth to share for me to get nice pings =/
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: fatty on September 06, 2004, 02:46:11 PM
i go to university of minn - duluth campus. i think the connection is limited to 10mb/s or something. i am not too keen on computer tech, so here is a link: http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/resnet/faq.html (http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/resnet/faq.html)
already tried:
switch from autonegotiate to force 10mb/halfduplex on the ethernet adaptor
check ipconfig
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: Grillkohle on September 08, 2004, 01:32:52 PM
Your campus has a dual 25 MBIT pipe to the internet, it seems. The local network is limited to 10 mbit, but that is still plenty. The network is slow because all your study buddies are downloading pron and the like.
Did you register to this "ResNet" that they have? It seems that 1/2 of the bandwidth is reserved to that, which might be faster if not everyone has it.
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: fatty on September 08, 2004, 01:48:33 PM
yea, i plugged it in, clicked internet explorer and it forced me to register for resnet
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: E-Fonzarelli on September 08, 2004, 10:58:18 PM
I say get your way NINJA style...
go find the fiber boxes for those peopel that you know are downloading way more than their share of the pipe and have an accident with a pair of scissors...
it will take at least a week to get them back online, and in the meantime, have fun! :D
(disclaimer - if you do anything I just suggested, you are a moron :) )
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: Mr.Bill on September 09, 2004, 05:10:02 PM
by moron he of course means, if you get CAUGHT doing it, your a moron, he specificly said NINJA. so good luck fattty :-D
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: Jefe on September 10, 2004, 11:33:10 AM
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yea, i plugged it in, clicked internet explorer and it forced me to register for resnet
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You have resnet too?
Do you also have to have sophos
Title: I Am Now Ness
Post by: fatty on September 10, 2004, 12:18:25 PM