Hi guys,
I'm in a six person flat at university in the city centre of Leeds (not halls, about 6 flats in the building). My connection to the internet goes from my computer into an Ethernet port in my wall; I can only assume this goes through to a router shared by the building to the internet (20MB Be There package AFAIK).
My actual speed is okay, I get around 350kb/s download speed on average. My ping is also fine (which I find surprising). The problem I have is packet loss, at any given time it can be between 6-20%; causing me huge issues when trying to play on-line games.
Does anyone know what could be causing the problem? The only reason why I think it might not be the sheer quantity of people using it is because of constant high speeds and low ping, unless that isn't usually the case..
If there's no real workaround for this (fixing the packet loss) Would it be possible to unfairly allocate the bandwidth to myself using a third party program or perhaps my own router? I guess that sounds stupid but I'm just trying to come up with ideas really!
Thanks,
Sam
I'm in a six person flat at university in the city centre of Leeds (not halls, about 6 flats in the building). My connection to the internet goes from my computer into an Ethernet port in my wall; I can only assume this goes through to a router shared by the building to the internet (20MB Be There package AFAIK).
My actual speed is okay, I get around 350kb/s download speed on average. My ping is also fine (which I find surprising). The problem I have is packet loss, at any given time it can be between 6-20%; causing me huge issues when trying to play on-line games.
Does anyone know what could be causing the problem? The only reason why I think it might not be the sheer quantity of people using it is because of constant high speeds and low ping, unless that isn't usually the case..
If there's no real workaround for this (fixing the packet loss) Would it be possible to unfairly allocate the bandwidth to myself using a third party program or perhaps my own router? I guess that sounds stupid but I'm just trying to come up with ideas really!
Thanks,
Sam