Dorm throttles internet

[Asreal]

Alright. Just moved into this college dorm a few weeks ago and I have come to the conclusion that they are definitely throttling the internet. 

Specifically around 3pm and 12am the internet cuts to out a maximum of 100Kbps usually from 1 to 4 hours. 

I'd say this pretty much happens everyday. 

So my question. 

With throttling illegal for ISPs, is there anything I could do about this? Or do I just have to hunker down and deal with it?

 

P.S. I didn't really know what section to post this, so feel free to let me know if should post this somewhere else. 

[Arika]

yes it's illegal for ISPs, but it's not illegal for your dorm (unless they are an ISP and you are a paying customer)

[Guest]

Well their house their rules I suppose. No harm in asking them about the internet, maybe it’s old infrastucture and those are peak times.

[LAwLz]

3 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Well their house their rules I suppose. No harm in asking them about the internet, maybe it’s old infrastucture and those are peak times.

That's the first thing I was thinking too.

You can't assume that you are deliberately being throttled just because your network gets slower at certain times a day. It might just be that you are sharing bandwidth with other people, and those happen to be more active at those times.