uhaulball Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 OK. the situation i have right now is that I am at a university and in my dorm room we are on a LAN. People somewhere surrounding me that are on my network are hogging the bandwidth during peak hours. the only time i can have no-lag during online games and downloads is like 3am in the morning. Is there a way i can set my priority higher or something. I am in CAL and i play counter-strike 1.6 on tuesday nights at 9pm est. this also happens to be the prime time that these people keep downloading their porn and whatnot. I hate people that just leave their p2p on 24/7. Someone please help me find a way to have higher priority over these fools. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Milkshake Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 OK. the situation i have right now is that I am at a university and in my dorm room we are on a LAN. People somewhere surrounding me that are on my network are hogging the bandwidth during peak hours. the only time i can have no-lag during online games and downloads is like 3am in the morning. Is there a way i can set my priority higher or something. I am in CAL and i play counter-strike 1.6 on tuesday nights at 9pm est. this also happens to be the prime time that these people keep downloading their porn and whatnot. I hate people that just leave their p2p on 24/7. Someone please help me find a way to have higher priority over these fools. Nope, nothing you can do. Bandwidth is dealt out probably to some switch that leads to the dorms. So you are stuck with it. Theres no way to set ones priority higher, all hosts on a network have the same priority. Heres an analogy: Lets say you have cable and a neighbor steals your cable, he is taking some of your bandwidth which causes the quality on your tv to get worse. In this case, and your case, the only thing you can really do is contact the administrators and let them know of the situation. That sucks, I'm sorry Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak50 Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 well, if your campous is anything like mine. Your problem is bandwith caps on certain ports. One of the original reasons for creating the cap not that long ago was because of flooding. LAN like speeds on the upload caused bottlenecks and literally stopped the entire network from talking to the outside. For us, most of these caps are lifted during the wee hours of the night when UW-Stout uploads data to the states servers and what not. I wouldn't be suprised if you are in the same situation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uhaulball Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 im pretty sure its just the floormates dowloading their warez and pr0n cuz there are occasions, very few at that, where i can play games with low ping and without spikes during regular hours. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Septem Posted February 7, 2006 Posted February 7, 2006 Someone's probably using the connection for an XDCC bot in a warez IRC channel. But I'd say this lag or not, since it's a college and that's what college connections are for. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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