I’ve been experiencing serious intermittent slowness on the residential network after the recent bandwidth increase to 4GB. Every couple of hours, web pages refuse to load and all network activity grinds to a halt. There’s a good chance that it may be caused by increasing the bandwidth limit and throttle, and the school’s servers are not able to handle all the load. Also, on-campus students may be enjoying more bandwidth-heavy activities than usual because of the perceived luxury of having double the bandwidth. Let’s hope this problem gets resolved soon because this is embarrassing for Penn State’s network to get bogged down so much even with comparatively limited bandwidth limits (still).
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I had this problem before the bandwidth increase. They claimed to increase the bandwidth available to the Residence Halls by 120%, but in practice I don’t think that’d possible.
Oh well. Afternoons and late nights are slowest, in my experience.
I’ve really had no new problems since the increase. If anything, I’ve noticed things are better.
It’s actually not too bad now. It was only the first few days when the connection was spotty.
The point is that they should have upgraded their system to handle unlimited bandwidth. I come from a school of equal size, supporting an equal number of students on residential networks which has no bandwith restrictions, and oc3 connections in all the dorms. We pay a ridiculous amount for rent of these places. Where is the money going?
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