College campus lag in games and discord!

mjm15 · September 8, 2019

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I currently live on campus, and I'm having trouble gaming on the connection here. Every time I try and play a game the ping will spike, to the point where the game will become unplayable. I've seen spikes up to 1000ms the spikes are frequent and in 5 to 10 second spikes. I've gotten different advice from different Information Technology personnel on campus.

One professional told me that nothing can be done, which confuses me because my ping in a speed test website (ex. speedtest.net) would be fine but in Discord and while playing my ping seems to spike. My networking class professor told me that I might have luck connecting to a proxy server, I cannot host a proxy on the schools network so if anybody has a good proxy site I would appreciate it so I can test his theory. The last piece of advice I got was that I should cap my upload speeds. I honestly dont know what to do at this point.

My theory is that it could be my hardware since I bought one of those OP Walmart Gaming Laptops. The price was cheap so I'm sure they cheeped out on the motherboard, which might have a crap NIC

kirashi · September 8, 2019

1 hour ago, mjm15 said:

My networking class professor told me that I might have luck connecting to a proxy server, I cannot host a proxy on the schools network so if anybody has a good proxy site I would appreciate it so I can test his theory.

You can also try using a VPN, however, I suspect there's some QoS traffic shaping within your campus network, so next best thing is to have your own connection installed from the local ISP, which you'll have to pay a monthly connection for, of course.

mjm15 · September 8, 2019

10 hours ago, kirashi said:

You can also try using a VPN, however, I suspect there's some QoS traffic shaping within your campus network, so next best thing is to have your own connection installed from the local ISP, which you'll have to pay a monthly connection for, of course.

I'm pretty sure I can't use a VPN on my campus network, I'm not trying to get my whole internet shut off