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[Tommy the Cat]

I'm sure some of you saw how bad my lag is. It starts off as 5 which is what is normal, but then I lag out srsly after about 5 minutes. The other day it went up to 996.

The only cause for this I can see, considering my student accommodation is still quite empty, is that the internet provider here is ran by gorillas with walkie talkies.

Probably won't be around so much until it gets sorted.

Also, my showers are shit, the rooms are tiny and the common room is always full of people with BO issues. How I love Essex.

[Junta]

Sorry to hear the news Tommy - especially about Essex

[Hzza]

Unlucky mate, give BT a damn good talking too.

[Lazzars]

if its halls then the internet will always be shit for games, unless you go to a really nerdy uni that has a ton of computer science like courses, then it will be really good

[Power]

From the thread title I was expecting a new episode of scrubs

[discordance]

my halls in liverpool were fine, had an on-site uplink to JANET

[Hzza]

TBH I'm kind of entering smug mode right about now, last year he had a broadband line that could (totally legally *cough*) download movies in like 0.25 seconds or some crazy shit.

THE INTERNETZ R RATIONED, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU F00L .

Also, have you figured out whats causing it yet? My dad had a similar problem today, one phone call and half an hours wait and he jumped up from 56k to 2meg I think he said.

[Zarf]

You're screwed.
You can try pleading to the network admins for your Uni, but i wouldn't expect much.

Start downloading something over http, see if the speed drops on that after 5 mins. I'm thinking what they've done is put in a system that lowers the priority of TCP connections that persist beyond 300 seconds - a modest hit during file transfers but a real killer when you're using packets with small payloads. If you're lucky they won't have enabled this if you're connecting to port 80 (If your download stays at a constant speed this is the case).
If that's the case give www.your-freedom.net a go, it's free for a 64k connection that should suffice to play TF2.

I had the same problem as you with WoW when i was in Uni accomodation, and your-freedom fixed it (I actually paid for the unlimited service, and got outside ports tunneled through so i could host my own web server with 10Mb upload and use an active connection for direct connect/torrents etc

[Tommy the Cat]

At the moment I am living in student accommodation but it's not owned by the uni (actually I'm banned from uni accommodation but that's another story- i digress) and I'm assuming they've gone for the cheapest internet provider (someone called studentcom). I've already paid them for an upgrade from 1mps to 4mps which allows online games and tings but its still not going great, they're limiting everyone I believe.

That said I just played on a quiet KotH server and didn't lag out at all so maybe it's improving.