internet speed limited

windy2851 · 28 Mar 2011 at 21:38

hi i need some help please i live at an army barracks and we have wired lan internet which limits everyone to 50kbps there is about 5 on the server out of about 150 as everyone is away i have acces the the server room is there anything i can do to increse my speed as its so slow
any help would be great

23JMZ07 · 28 Mar 2011 at 21:44

Nothing YOU could do most probably.

windy2851 · 28 Mar 2011 at 21:49

what do you mean by that

23JMZ07 · 28 Mar 2011 at 22:10

The server is probably protected/configed in a way where you as a user couldnt change anything. Or do you have admin?

windy2851 · 28 Mar 2011 at 22:12

i have the keys to the server room as im incharge of them

Rainmaker · 28 Mar 2011 at 22:31

If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't mess around with the config. Not being funny, just sayin'.

Swifty55 · 28 Mar 2011 at 22:52

Shoot it?

Awahwah · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:00

Lump hammer?

Rroff · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:07

23JMZ07 said:
The server is probably protected/configed in a way where you as a user couldnt change anything. Or do you have admin?

This - if you could do it you'd know how to do it, its almost definitely protected by an admin account so unless you have the username/pwd for it theres not much you can do - short of hacking the system.

BloodyL · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:18

You are willing to interfere with government hardware just so you can surf the net faster?

Wow.

Someone needs to send an IT security team to those barracks, if he's willing to cross the line for a faster facebook, god knows what else he's been doing in there. :eek:

windy2851 · 29 Mar 2011 at 14:47

its not govenment hardware it was paid for buy us and we still have to pay £11 a month is so slow and we get dced every 2 hours we were told when we all chipping in that it would be fast and we are all ****ed off with it and becuase it would cost money for someone to come out the people in charge of us dont care so i just want to know if we could make it faster but if i cant thanks anywhay

Rainmaker · 29 Mar 2011 at 14:55

windy2851 said:
its not govenment hardware it was paid for buy us and we still have to pay £11 a month is so slow and we get dced every 2 hours we were told when we all chipping in that it would be fast and we are all ****ed off with it and becuase it would cost money for someone to come out the people in charge of us dont care so i just want to know if we could make it faster but if i cant thanks anywhay

To be fair, had you explained that (and provided some more useful info besides) you'd probably have gotten a better reception.

"Hai guys, I've got the keys to the Army server room, what can I tweaks to get myself faster interwebz?" doesn't tend to come across very well. We're hardly going to help you (as it sounded) break the law.

What ISP is it? What hardware's it running? Who are you all paying the money to? It sounds like you've basically been given access to the Army bandwidth for a set cost, rather than a consumer ISP; in which case you still really don't want to be messing around with the config.

KIA · 29 Mar 2011 at 20:36

This is going to end in fail. Don't touch anything!