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Slow Campus Network

Started by Chris Swingler, 2002-09-18T14:47:34-05:00 (Wednesday)

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Chris Swingler

I've noticed the campus network connection to the internet has been really _really_ slow lately.  When I got here back in August, I was clocking in at 700kbps+ downstream, but now, the last three benchmarks I took on my download speed put me at 96, 64, and 21 downstream!  Does anyone know what's up, and am I unique with this problem?  I'm in Bluff, but I have a friend in Prarie who is experiencing the same problem.

--Beanie
Christopher Swingler
CAOS Web Administrator

Stiffler

I believe that the Res Halls are capped, and now that virtually everyone has a computer going, that's taking away from the amount you are allowed. Well, it's something like that.

Jon
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

William Grim

I don't know if we're capped; if we are, then they need to take it away or spend the money and buy a new line.

Anyway, the extra traffic from several computers is causing the problems; you are not alone.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

Victor Cardona

I don't know why they would bother capping. I have heard that we have an insane amount of bandwidth available for for connections to the outside world. It is the individual building that are having problems.

Victor

Michael Kennedy

I guess capping is there mostly to discourage filesharing which can open the university to legal problems.  I'd bet that is the main reason this is done.  Students running Kazaa, etc are probably a major concern for SIUE's legal department.  It's a simple way to curb some of it.
"If it ain't busted, don't fix it" is a very sound principal and remains so despite the fact that I have slavishly ignored it all my life. --Douglas Adams, "Salmon of Doubt"

Stiffler

I remember my freshman year, I walked by an administrators office. I looked at his computer monitor, and what did I see? *Kettle drum beats* Napster!!! Yes, a school offical using Napster, and playing music for the whole dang office. He was bragging about getting any song to the others in the office. I don't think they are concerned about that stuff, unless they changed their attitude.

Jon
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

Michael Kennedy

Well, in the last few years their additude may have changed.  A couple of big universities did get in a bit of trouble and that might have influenced the capping of speed.  It's an easy thing to do and can make it at least appear that they're doing something to curb it.  :)
"If it ain't busted, don't fix it" is a very sound principal and remains so despite the fact that I have slavishly ignored it all my life. --Douglas Adams, "Salmon of Doubt"

Chris Swingler

You also have to remember that one inconsiderate user may leave Kazaa running 24/7, with people uploading from him/her like nuts.  That's a lot of bandwidth down the s***er.

--Beanie
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Christopher Swingler
CAOS Web Administrator

R. Andrew Lamonica

Don't you mean down the sti**ler.  ;-)

Sti** releases probably bring down the network about 30k 24/7.   ;-)

Stiffler

I don't know anyone named Sti**. I never seen "*" in a name before. What language is that? If anybody replaces the "*"s with "f"s, I resent that, because my 10 megs/sec transfer rates 24/7 cannot slow down Bluff Hall.  :-D hehe, just kidding. I Browse the internet and Download new Linux ISOs every now and then.

I remember when this campus had a firewall. All the multiplayer games were blocked along with FTP, HTTP, ... servers to the outside world. In woodland hall, I could get 200 K/s transfer rates daily. Now in this nice new building with brand new network equipment, I'm lucky to get 60 k/s.

Jon
Retired webmaster of CAOS.

Victor Cardona

I know a lot of employees who used napster and the like. I really don't think the employees themselves care about the legal issues. Of course, I am sure that the legal department does. I have not heard about any employees being discouraged from using file sharing services, but I have also been off of work for a long time.

Victor

Guest

There were some problems with people using file sharing programs like Napster and there was some bandwidth limits installed at one time on some of those programs. The problem was SIUE was being charged for bandwidth and those programs were using 25 megabits per second of SIUE's T3 line capacity. Also only the Engineering and Bluff Hall buildings have a switched Ethernet connection to the backbone. Any other building is limited by the bandwidth of Ethernet at 10 megabits per second. Hope this info helps. :-o

Stiffler

Thank you! Told y'all that the lines were capped.

Jon
Retired webmaster of CAOS.