help!

[ziquan]

I'm getting really bad lag at school.

[Claquesous]

My guess is that the school's network is experiencing significant traffic. This could be from kids getting back and wanting to download the new songs they couldn't download on dial up from home. It may also be related the the latest Microsoft worm that was going around lately. You might try updating your anti-virus and doing a scan. Your computer may be running slow in general if you have a worm, but if it's a good computer you might not notice it during regular use. My guess is that the person was recommending a router and taking advantage of the firewalling features. This may quicken up your connection, but my guess is the true bottleneck is not your individual connection but more likely the Universities. In conclusion, I bet the problems will go away within a week.

[ziquan]

I have symantec running and updated all the time along with sygate firewall, so yeah its the network. I thought the deal was that maybe the school is trying to narrow bandwidth to gaming sites and this was a way around that. But i'm not too knowledgeable about this stuff. It worked well last night! I also gave in and emailed the tech people here to see what's up. No response yet.

[ziquan]

This is what the school network is like:

[Tehya]

OMG babe,
I never seen that before!
Claq, {HELP}!

[Claquesous]

Time to ?

[ziquan]

lol not with one year left and these scholarships. They say they are working on it... but whatever. i can live with dialup until i get outta this state.

I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but the tech guy said the network has problems only with UDP protocol. he said there were bottlenecks in the network and blah blah blah i don't know what any of this means. but basically it only affects certain types of programs.