My uni lets a private firm sort out the internet for its halls of residence. I've looked at the website and they block most ports. The ones they don't are the ones used for things like email, http etc.
Now my question: I play a few online games (counterstrike and world of warcraft basically) and the latency on these are terrible. At first I thought it was high traffic but I ended up going on Warcraft at 3am and it was just as slow. Latency is usually upwards of 1000ms which is, obviously, annoying. Warcraft uses very little bandwidth, however which really confuses me. Could the blocking of the port (3724 for those who're interested) affect the latency on this game or could there be any other problem? Also, when I first login the game chances are that for 5-10minutes the latency will be perfectly fine (less than 100ms). After that it'll shoot up and then there'll be little spikes throughout my gameplay where it'll be fine for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
I'm an extreme novice when it comes to anything network/internet related so any help/explanations welcome.
Now my question: I play a few online games (counterstrike and world of warcraft basically) and the latency on these are terrible. At first I thought it was high traffic but I ended up going on Warcraft at 3am and it was just as slow. Latency is usually upwards of 1000ms which is, obviously, annoying. Warcraft uses very little bandwidth, however which really confuses me. Could the blocking of the port (3724 for those who're interested) affect the latency on this game or could there be any other problem? Also, when I first login the game chances are that for 5-10minutes the latency will be perfectly fine (less than 100ms). After that it'll shoot up and then there'll be little spikes throughout my gameplay where it'll be fine for 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
I'm an extreme novice when it comes to anything network/internet related so any help/explanations welcome.