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sadness13 · February 9th, 2004, 07:02 PM

I'm hoping some of you here can help me shed some light on the subject or help me decide whether or not I should persue my current problem.

I'm a student at state university with a student body of around 25k. I live on campus in dorm with internet access. I notice that during the day (primetime 12-8pm) my internet pretty much bogs down to a standstill. I have complained to the IT department by voicing my concerns but they always have some standard rebutle such as "Things are working as intended." I notice that if I go to the library where I estimate they have about 300-400 machines hooked up to the network, I can browse just fine and with optimal speed but when I got back to my dorm an try to surf its like im using a 9600.
I understand part of their argument in that while most people in the library are surfing the web it doesn't put as much strain on the bandwidth as people in the dorms who are doing other things such as making huge file transfers. So my question is, do I really have room to make a complaint about having crappy internet access in my dorm during primetime or am I just a victim of dorm residents who abuse their privilage by making huge an sometimes illegal file transfers. Maybe some of you network admins could shed some light on the subject. No, I'm not a internet guru so I would like to ask a few questions in closing: Do they probably have the bandwidth alloted, so that each dorm/building recieves a certain amount ? Is that possible? If it is, am I the victim of some bandwidth nazi who likes to download pr0n and mp3s nonstop?

Any feedback would be appreciated

February 9th, 2004, 07:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
sadness13 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 27	Internet Connectivity problem I'm hoping some of you here can help me shed some light on the subject or help me decide whether or not I should persue my current problem. I'm a student at state university with a student body of around 25k. I live on campus in dorm with internet access. I notice that during the day (primetime 12-8pm) my internet pretty much bogs down to a standstill. I have complained to the IT department by voicing my concerns but they always have some standard rebutle such as "Things are working as intended." I notice that if I go to the library where I estimate they have about 300-400 machines hooked up to the network, I can browse just fine and with optimal speed but when I got back to my dorm an try to surf its like im using a 9600. I understand part of their argument in that while most people in the library are surfing the web it doesn't put as much strain on the bandwidth as people in the dorms who are doing other things such as making huge file transfers. So my question is, do I really have room to make a complaint about having crappy internet access in my dorm during primetime or am I just a victim of dorm residents who abuse their privilage by making huge an sometimes illegal file transfers. Maybe some of you network admins could shed some light on the subject. No, I'm not a internet guru so I would like to ask a few questions in closing: Do they probably have the bandwidth alloted, so that each dorm/building recieves a certain amount ? Is that possible? If it is, am I the victim of some bandwidth nazi who likes to download pr0n and mp3s nonstop? Any feedback would be appreciated