Anyone on a Uni Network? (Mines totally fubar)

leezer3 · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:22

Hiya,
Quick question- Is anyone else on a Uni network experiencing major net probs atm? (UEA)
HTTP downloads are refusing to go above about .1kbs, net is generally slow as heck and any ping to a US site dumps. Tracert appears to be telling me that I'm getting 100% packet loss somewhere in the London routing servers but no more than that (Not a consistant offender unfortunately)

Anyone with any thoughts- AFAIK, most unis are on the same ISP network.

Cheers

-Leezer-

KaHn · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:24

When I was in manchester we were part of Janet, which was awesome, my first year I paid 100 quid for a 10meg connection for the year with out any restrictions, this was when you were paying 30+ quid a month for 512k.

KaHn

PieMaster · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:26

UEA is fine inbound. I'd try the (email)helpdesk, should still be open.

Jimmeh · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:27

leezer3 said:
AFAIK, most unis are on the same ISP network.

They all are on JANET, but probably enter the internet on a global scale through various different points.

More than likely the problem will be local to your University because the education system would come to a complete hault if JANET was down.

gord · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:34

KaHn said:
When I was in manchester we were part of Janet, which was awesome, my first year I paid 100 quid for a 10meg connection for the year with out any restrictions, this was when you were paying 30+ quid a month for 512k.

KaHn

No restrictions. Man, my internets price is included in the halls cost, and i can download at 10megs a second, but id happily pay £100 for no restrictions.. just to get xbox live working really..

leezer3 · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:36

Hmm

Junk connection lol. The helpdesk closed a while back, so thats not much use. AFAIK, its not local to the uni, the UEA managed leg of the hop is fine, just as an example in a tracert to here, this is the leg before the timeout:

so-2-0.metro1-londencyh00.London.level13.net [212.113.0.113]

In other words, what that suggests to me anyway :confused:

is a failure somewhere in the exit to the UK (The UK based servers I've tried are fine AFAIK.)

What I would pay for an unrestricted net connection, just to access WOW among other things

(At least though, there is no censorship of general net resources)

-Leezer-

Bumhucker · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:38

My uni network is always having major network problems :rolleyes:

£70 for dial-up speeds during the day and an alright broadband at night

That's uni of nottingham.

KaHn · 26 Apr 2006 at 18:41

gord said:
No restrictions. Man, my internets price is included in the halls cost, and i can download at 10megs a second, but id happily pay £100 for no restrictions.. just to get xbox live working really..

They got clued up in 2nd year, going on to a CS server or UT server with a ping of 4, words dont do justice.

KaHn

gord · 26 Apr 2006 at 19:09

KaHn said:
They got clued up in 2nd year, going on to a CS server or UT server with a ping of 4, words dont do justice.

KaHn

I was into CS when i came to uni, but ive stopped playing it. The ping of <7 was nice, but more often than not it got me kicked from servers...

mctrials23 · 26 Apr 2006 at 19:17

im at UEA at the moment and yeah the server is gash. I cant send pop3 emails. I can recieve but not send.

Only a few weeks left though and then out into our own place and me and my mate are gonna get sweet broadband.

Dont think there is a lot you can do. I can dl at about 300kb sec most of the time at uea.

Raymond Lin · 26 Apr 2006 at 19:21

When i was in Brighton £3 a month for 10mb JANET but its locked down tighter than Fort Knox. No filesharing will work, only HttP does and even msn need a proxy.

Lagz · 26 Apr 2006 at 19:56

Ours is no restrictions, can download as fast as you want (open up about 15 downloads and they still all go at 4Mb/s, probably limited by the server end). Never have any problems.

When I say no restrictions, I mean anything (filesharing, games etc) will work, but if you start downloading 10Gig a day from bittorrent or something stupid they will notice and stop you. Its basically just so they dont get done for breaking Janets educational use / not for profit policies, and for traffic which travels abroad which they get charged for. As long as you use it reasonably they are fine with it.

georges · 26 Apr 2006 at 20:55

Lagz said:
Ours is no restrictions, can download as fast as you want (open up about 15 downloads and they still all go at 4Mb/s, probably limited by the server end). Never have any problems.

When I say no restrictions, I mean anything (filesharing, games etc) will work, but if you start downloading 10Gig a day from bittorrent or something stupid they will notice and stop you. Its basically just so they dont get done for breaking Janets educational use / not for profit policies, and for traffic which travels abroad which they get charged for. As long as you use it reasonably they are fine with it.

I can't wait till uni

KaHn · 26 Apr 2006 at 21:48

Lagz said:
Ours is no restrictions, can download as fast as you want (open up about 15 downloads and they still all go at 4Mb/s, probably limited by the server end). Never have any problems.

When I say no restrictions, I mean anything (filesharing, games etc) will work, but if you start downloading 10Gig a day from bittorrent or something stupid they will notice and stop you. Its basically just so they dont get done for breaking Janets educational use / not for profit policies, and for traffic which travels abroad which they get charged for. As long as you use it reasonably they are fine with it.

Which uni?

KaHn

Spamalot · 26 Apr 2006 at 21:50

leezer3 said:
Hiya,
Quick question- Is anyone else on a Uni network experiencing major net probs atm? (UEA)
HTTP downloads are refusing to go above about .1kbs, net is generally slow as heck and any ping to a US site dumps. Tracert appears to be telling me that I'm getting 100% packet loss somewhere in the London routing servers but no more than that (Not a consistant offender unfortunately)

Anyone with any thoughts- AFAIK, most unis are on the same ISP network.

Cheers

-Leezer-

When I was at uea last ear it was the fastest net in the world, recorded it at 3mbps on bandwidthplace.

What halls you staying in?

Burbleflop · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:00

mctrials23 said:
I cant send pop3 emails. I can recieve but not send.

POP3 is for receiving, not sending emails.

Lagz · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:01

KaHn said:
Which uni?

KaHn

Cambridge.

georges said:
I can't wait till uni

I think our policy is very liberal. Dont expect all unis to be like that. I've heard (for example) that at Exeter a download will start very fast, but slow to a crawl if its large (to stop you downloading big files I guess). A lot of unis block p2p, gaming etc.

mctrials23 · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:05

sorry, typing too quick. Basically neither my btinternet smtp or hotpop is allowed to send via an email client.

georges · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:07

Lagz said:
Cambridge.

I think our policy is very liberal. Dont expect all unis to be like that. I've heard (for example) that at Exeter a download will start very fast, but slow to a crawl if its large (to stop you downloading big files I guess). A lot of unis block p2p, gaming etc.

Is that in halls of residence etc, or just the main campus?

Any ideas on Cambridge( A longshot, but I'm desperate to get there).

Burbleflop · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:09

mctrials23 said:
sorry, typing too quick. Basically neither my btinternet smtp or hotpop is allowed to send via an email client.

If you're trying to actually send emails using BT's SMTP server from your Uni connection, then irrespective of firewall policies at Uni, it won't work. No ISP worth their salt would let someone relay through their boxes unless they were coming from their IP range.