[Major Chachi]

So here is the deal,

My school's internet has been having problems with high ping and maxed out bandwidth.  The tech support says it's because a lot of the students are streaming videos, i.e. youtube, hulu, etc.

Say they are right, which I think students are.  Does this affect BOTH ping and bandwidth?!?!?!  I don't think so, but I have been pushing to have something done, ANYTHING, but they have shown no progress nor shown any future of progress.

So, my question is,

If there are a lot of students streaming via online media, does that make our bandwidth AND ping suffer (HORRIBLY)?

AND

If adding more Bandwidth will solve the problem of ping?


As I understand, ping and bandwidth are two totally separate items.



PLEASE HELP!  We are meeting with some admins soon and want our facts straight.  Please help! 

[vonDuTch]

i have no clue

[Knott]

Bandwidth is your entire pipe width... ping is delay, if your constantly streaming your ping is gonna rocket up cause your pipe is full, increase bandwidth. Your ping is your upload speed, if people are streaming live video they are using huge chunks of bandwidth thus increasing ping and bottle neckin' the network,,,,, BAD!!!. If their just downloading vids off youtube then just simply increase your bandwidth to like OC-12 and you wouldn't notice it, although OC-12 is not cheap. 622 Mbit/s - $15,000 a month ?

[Evilgenius]

your ping is your upload speed?

lost me there knott lol


increase bandwidth = better ping but not likely though cause more bandwidth there is then more people will use it and you will be in the same boat your in now

its like playing cod while you are downloading torrents or something.

options=  get more bandwidth, or block all the videos site + p2p.

[Knott]

lol whoops, upload determines ping!! lol backwards

[Evilgenius]

try again lol

[Evilgenius]

ping is affected by your upload... if its congested..

but its really how good "quality" or close your connection is to the server

[Knott]

ok bill nye lol!!!!

[NoBS|Thirsty]

Arnt there some ingame commands you can type into the console to lower ping?

I dont know them, but maybe bill nye can help us.......

[Evilgenius]

nope i dont ever need them cause my connection pwns

[Vlad]

nope i dont ever need them cause my connection pwns

But you should still know =P

[Evilgenius]

i only know what concerns me lol

[Major Chachi]

WOW offtopic much?  this has NOTHING to do with NoBS, COD.

I have a serious issue. 

I guess you guys think you solved it :p

So increase in bandwidth won't do much 'cause we will just meet that max soon after it's increased.  Makes sense.


What can we do?

[Evilgenius]

like i said block the streaming sites and p2p.

check out www.opendns.org

[DirtOne]

WOW offtopic much?  this has NOTHING to do with NoBS, COD.

I have a serious issue. 

I guess you guys think you solved it :p

So increase in bandwidth won't do much 'cause we will just meet that max soon after it's increased.  Makes sense.


What can we do?

Best solution is to ask em to block some sites and p2p like evil said