[superzombie23]

I use utorrent a lot, and lately it has shown 0 seeders for most torrents. Connection is closed on every tracker. I'm very sure UCF network guys decided to block ALL torrent traffic on RESnet because it was very laggy a bit ago on WoW and internet browsing every day during the day-time all the way to midnight. Now, youtube and WoW don't lag anymore and internet browsing is much faster.

So, absolutely none of my torrents connect. If it does manage to connect to a tracker with seeders, the speed jumps up, but somehow the network picks it up and drops the speed very low like 1 kb/s, compared to normally getting at least 1 MB/s before this happened. Also, I limited my upload to a very low rate so I wouldn't get caught. My roommate tested Limewire. He said he can get songs from people on this network, but he can't get anything else to start downloading on the search list. Is there anyway around this? I'm forced to use direct downloading for my anime and movies now, not that it's a problem cuz I know how to get stuff really fast through DDL, but it's annoying that I can't use torrents.

This post has been edited by superzombie23: 28 October 2010 - 06:12 PM

[MajorLag]

CMS?

[ibfreeekout]

superzombie23, on 28 October 2010 - 07:00 PM, said:

I use utorrent a lot, and lately it has shown 0 seeders for most torrents. Connection is closed on every tracker. I'm very sure UCF network guys decided to block ALL torrent traffic on RESnet because it was very laggy a bit ago on WoW and internet browsing every day during the day-time all the way to midnight. Now, youtube and WoW don't lag anymore and internet browsing is much faster.

So, absolutely none of my torrents connect. If it does manage to connect to a tracker with seeders, the speed jumps up, but somehow the network picks it up and drops the speed very low like 1 kb/s, compared to normally getting at least 1 MB/s before this happened. Also, I limited my upload to a very low rate so I wouldn't get caught. My roommate tested Limewire. He said he can get songs from people on this network, but he can't get anything else to start downloading on the search list. Is there anyway around this? I'm forced to use direct downloading for my anime and movies now, not that it's a problem cuz I know how to get stuff really fast through DDL, but it's annoying that I can't use torrents.

1. You must be CMS

2. Limewire got shut down....

3. Torrents have never been good in the first place. DDL's are certainly more reliable anyway.What's better: 6 MB/s or 1 MB/s. If you're a NASA intern I think simple math should be easy enough.

[Brain?!]

ibfreeekout, on 28 October 2010 - 08:56 PM, said:

3. Torrents have never been good in the first place. DDL's are certainly more reliable anyway.What's better: 6 MB/s or 1 MB/s. If you're a NASA intern I think simple math should be easy enough.

Dude you are forgetting that hard drives aren't bottlenecks

Also if you put over 9000 5200rpm drives in a RAID array you can get better speeds than a single solid state drive

[ibfreeekout]

Brain?!, on 28 October 2010 - 09:05 PM, said:

Dude you are forgetting that hard drives aren't bottlenecks

Also if you put over 9000 5200rpm drives in a RAID array you can get better speeds than a single solid state drive

O I completely forgot about that. Then again I'm not a NASA intern so my memory isn't that great.

[madhatter256]

DDL??? Direct Down Load???

Thank god I have brighthouse and behind 7 proxies (thank you Romania)....

[ibfreeekout]

madhatter256, on 28 October 2010 - 09:13 PM, said:

DDL??? Direct Down Load???

Thank god I have brighthouse and behind 7 proxies (thank you Romania)....

DDL = Direct DownLoad

[Brain?!]

ibfreeekout, on 28 October 2010 - 09:37 PM, said:

DDL = Direct DownLoad

DDL = doodoo licker

[Gamma]

Ha, funny timing. Whiplash said they just fixed whatever was the problem with being able to play SC2 on resnet. I am betting they blocked torrents completely, which freed up a lot of bandwidth.

You are gonna have to go with direct downloads. In all reality, you shouldn't be torrenting on campus to begin with, you can get in serious trouble because UCF does comply with requests.

[ibfreeekout]

They must have done something. Just did a SpeedTest check and this is the result:



Much better than what it used to be. Download used to struggle to get over 10 Mb and upload was maybe 1 Mb.

[madhatter256]

That should help a lot with online gamin...

[MajorLag]

ibfreeekout, on 28 October 2010 - 10:32 PM, said:

They must have done something. Just did a SpeedTest check and this is the result:

Much better than what it used to be. Download used to struggle to get over 10 Mb and upload was maybe 1 Mb.

Nah, mine has actually always been that good. Its just certain games that have a problem, and even then only at night. Oh yea, and youtube videos late at night. The strange thing is that i would still be able to download at >10 mb/s. Also the ping is a little high on your test.

[ibfreeekout]

MajorLag, on 29 October 2010 - 01:06 AM, said:

Nah, mine has actually always been that good. Its just certain games that have a problem, and even then only at night. Oh yea, and youtube videos late at night. The strange thing is that i would still be able to download at >10 mb/s. Also the ping is a little high on your test.

Yeah for some reason the ping stays around there, but when I run pingtest, everything is fine (no packet loss, very minimal to no jitter). Youtube videos are actually a lot better now which is awesome. It used to be only at certain times would they actually render, but now it works almost all the time.

[superzombie23]

ibfreeekout, on 28 October 2010 - 08:56 PM, said:

1. You must be CMS

2. Limewire got shut down....

What's CMS?

My roommate tested Limewire over a week ago. Was it down that long ago?

I just think some people don't know how to limit their uploading, which caused Resnet lag. The lag was especially unbearable after dinner time. It's like everyone and their mom was using the internet at night time. There were a lot of people complaining, and it got posted on the front page of the UCF helpdesk in response to all the complaints.

Quote

Attention UCF Residential Students

Some on-campus residents at the University of Central Florida are experiencing a slow connection and time-out errors when using gaming or chat software. In particular there has been a noticeable latency with World of Warcraft and Ventrillo connections. After substantial testing and investigation by our network administrators and our carrier Time Warner, it has been determined that this lag is occurring off our network.

What doesn't make sense is that I could go to the Student Union and there would be no lag or timeouts with WoW, then I go back to the Towers and there is insane lag. That doesn't seem like an outside network issue if you ask me. I even talked with a UCF network helpdesk guy over the phone about it. I asked him twice during the convo that if I went wireless around the library for example, would it be less laggy than the towers? He started to sound pissed and told me it won't ever work; it's an outside net issue. Well he was LYING LOL cuz I repeatedly tested this every week with my roommate in the union, and there was no game lag. It makes me think UCF limited the amount of connection traffic in certain areas, so a residential area at night would be totally tied up compared to another building, where there are no people using the internet. Now, it's not an issue anymore . It's a pity game complaints led to blocking other valuable sources of information . I guess they thought people wouldn't want to apply to UCF, if the word spread that there's too much lag with online games.

This post has been edited by superzombie23: 29 October 2010 - 05:47 AM

[SniperX]

superzombie23, on 29 October 2010 - 05:33 AM, said:

What doesn't make sense is that I could go to the Student Union and there would be no lag or timeouts with WoW, then I go back to the Towers and there is insane lag. That doesn't seem like an outside network issue if you ask me. I even talked with a UCF network helpdesk guy over the phone about it. I asked him twice during the convo that if I went wireless around the library for example, would it be less laggy than the towers? He started to sound pissed and told me it won't ever work; it's an outside net issue. Well he was LYING LOL cuz I repeatedly tested this every week with my roommate in the union, and there was no game lag. It makes me think UCF limited the amount of connection traffic in certain areas, so a residential area at night would be totally tied up compared to another building, where there are no people using the internet. Now, it's not an issue anymore . It's a pity game complaints led to blocking other valuable sources of information . I guess they thought people wouldn't want to apply to UCF, if the word spread that there's too much lag with online games.

Let a college employee let you in on some secrets.

1. UCF Wireless =/= Resnet. The wireless network on campus is managed completely separately from any hardwire connection you have in your dorm room/apartment sorta thing. Below is the speed test from my office to give you an idea.



2. The campus isn't blanketed with some super wireless. There are severl AP's around campus repeating the signal and if you're in an overlap, you will get shitty connection.

3. UCF tracks traffic and complies with all requests on all students. The RIAA can literally send UCF a letter and get a detailed list of what EVERYONE is doing, and they won't think twice about handing that sort of info over.

4. The guy you were speaking to on the phone wasn't a technician, he was a student getting paid $8/hr to read an answer off a piece of paper.

5. Who the fuck uses limewire anyway? I mean if you're into bestiality and having your computer added to a Russian botnet then your roommate is doing a good job I guess.

[Daman]

Renting a seedbox and transferring the file through SSH doesn't require all that much money or skill, and you'll be safe from RIAA requests like SniperX mentioned.

Also, is the hardwire connection in the dorms comparable with the connection you get in your office? Could someone post a speedtest from wireless/direct connections in the dorms?

Also what is CMS

is that just the nasa guy

This post has been edited by lt3: 29 October 2010 - 08:00 AM

[SniperX]

lt3, on 29 October 2010 - 08:41 AM, said:

Also, is the hardwire connection in the dorms comparable with the connection you get in your office? Could someone post a speedtest from wireless/direct connections in the dorms?

No, the connections in the dorm are on an entirely different network like I was pointing out. Basically there are "3" networks. UCF Wireless. UCF Colleges Hardwire like my office. Resnet. basically College>Wireless>Resnet.

[MajorLag]

lt3, on 29 October 2010 - 08:41 AM, said:

Could someone post a speedtest from wireless/direct connections in the dorms?

I think the one that freeek posted is from resnet, but dont forget it also depends where you test it to. For example i just test from ucf to washington dc on resnet and got this:

[madhatter256]

Anybody know of a national university internet speed (for their student) ranking system?

Has anyone even done this before?

I'd like to know how UCF stacks up against other schools.

Just looking at your scores, there shouldn't be any complaint, but then there are different types of protocols used when gaming online, or chatting online, so a speedtest.net doesn't really give you the whole picture since people still complain about it.

This post has been edited by madhatter256: 29 October 2010 - 09:11 AM

[superzombie23]

SniperX, on 29 October 2010 - 07:31 AM, said:

3. UCF tracks traffic and complies with all requests on all students. The RIAA can literally send UCF a letter and get a detailed list of what EVERYONE is doing, and they won't think twice about handing that sort of info over.



5. Who the fuck uses limewire anyway? I mean if you're into bestiality and having your computer added to a Russian botnet then your roommate is doing a good job I guess.

Doesn't protocol encryption help mask what you're downloading? I don't know how effective it is though. I've never got in trouble or received an e-mail the past 3 years I've been on the campus. I've heard of people going over the download cap getting in trouble, but that's probably not the same type of infraction related to RIAA. That worries me if they start beating down on direct download traffic too lol. It seems they already put a cap on the direct download speed. Don't take my word on that yet. Usually I use megaupload with a file downloading program, and I used to get 5 MB/s easily with it, but lately it seems a lot lower. I could just be unlucky. My Speedtest was horrible compared to yours, but I think that's all luck too. I only got 15Mb/s from Boca Raton, but 40 from South Carolina lol... random.
And my roommate is a freaking n00b. He doesn't like using other methods .

This post has been edited by superzombie23: 29 October 2010 - 09:58 AM