Campus Wifi

Mai-Kero

So I'm trying to kill eight hours here at the campus center so I don't have to drive another forty minutes today going home and coming back to see a musical tonight. I've got stuff to do, but I kind of want to annihilate some time with WoW. The problem is, I'm getting a bit of lag. Everything else works fine, internet browsing, torrenting and whatnot, but WoW is slow.

Is there any port magic I can mess with to get my latency down into the green?

In related news, what should I put on my salad?

Specularity

Do you have to register to get onto the network? At my University we have to register our wireless cards to get it to work, so maybe you're accessing someone else's network. If that's not it, I don't know what to tell you (I'm bad at internet).

As for the salad: Bacon bits. They are my favorite thing ever.

Evil_Reaver

Your university might have the bandwidth capabilities of the network capped to limit how much data a user can pull down at one time. Typically universities and businesses will do this to stop one person from hogging all the bandwidth and slowing everyone else down. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do if that's the case.

Mai-Kero

So I tried waiting a couple minutes after I turned off my torrent and it went back to green. I guess I just expected the torrent not to hog my bandwidth on a highspeed connection. As it turns out, not true.

TechBoy

Yeah, running a torrent while trying to play an online game just doesn't work.

The BitTorrent protocol is designed to download and upload as fast as your connection will allow. So while a faster connection will let you torrent faster, it'll still hog all the tubes if you try to do something else while its running.