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I need some help with my ports for my new internet connection. I have been getting constant 400+ pings on a cable line and someone just told me I need to designate the ports for the game. I didn't have to do that back at home, but I'll try anything just to get my ping below 80 again.

So does anyone know how I designate the ports in my routers firmware and what ports to use? Are they the UT ports such as 7777 and 7778?

hmmm, first--whats the make and model of your router? second--catch me on MSN

Linksys wrt45g. And I'll be on MSN for a little while tonight, and tomorrow in the evening

Yeah I've got the same problem at college.. I ping 6000 on DoG Standard, normal on DoG Custom and {qoou}, and 4000 on all the match servers.

makes me wonder if universities are purposely blocking certain types of traffic...

Captain_Obvious wrote:makes me wonder if universities are purposely blocking certain types of traffic...

ding ding ding!!, we have a winner

special_Kare wrote:ding ding ding!!, we have a winner

Yes, which makes me wonder if there's a way to encrypt UT traffic, allowing players to get around the university filters.

Captain_Obvious wrote:

special_Kare wrote:ding ding ding!!, we have a winner

Yes, which makes me wonder if there's a way to encrypt UT traffic, allowing players to get around the university filters.

you are on a roll!!

Captain_Obvious wrote:makes me wonder if universities are purposely blocking certain types of traffic...

I live in a house that is off campus, so that shouldn't (I hope ) affect me.

However, the cable company that provides the cable TV just recently started offering cable internet service. They might just be a terrible service or are still working out kinks, if any (I know absolutely nothing about servers, networking, etc )

Rickshaw wrote:However, the cable company that provides the cable TV just recently started offering cable internet service.

So basically this is yet another problem that we can blame on newbs.

Rickshaw wrote:

Captain_Obvious wrote:makes me wonder if universities are purposely blocking certain types of traffic...

I live in a house that is off campus, so that shouldn't (I hope ) affect me.

However, the cable company that provides the cable TV just recently started offering cable internet service. They might just be a terrible service or are still working out kinks, if any (I know absolutely nothing about servers, networking, etc )

The way cable works, you're on a shared connection, so the more users that sign up, the slower your connection will go since you have to share it with everyone else. Usually it'll be slow during peak times of the day and pick up at nights/early mornings.

DSL is probably better for your connection speeds. That or with such deep pockets like yours you should go for the T1! It's full duplex so you get simultaneous upload and download at 1.5mbits!

Why stop there? Tap into the backbone of the internet with a OC-768 connection, and enjoy speeds of up to 39,813.12 Mbit/s.

Denial wrote:
The way cable works, you're on a shared connection, so the more users that sign up, the slower your connection will go since you have to share it with everyone else. Usually it'll be slow during peak times of the day and pick up at nights/early mornings.

DSL is probably better for your connection speeds. That or with such deep pockets like yours you should go for the T1! It's full duplex so you get simultaneous upload and download at 1.5mbits!

There are 8 people in the house but there are usually at least 3 people gone at one time. However, there are 2 people that download torrents 24/7. I know torrents slowed down my other applications when I had DSL back at home, but I thought the higher speed of cable would've been able to compensate for that.

I have actually been talking about getting DSL with the guy in the room next to mine. It's only $24.95 a month and divided between two people, it's only $2.50 more than I'm paying right now.

Captain_Obvious wrote:Why stop there? Tap into the backbone of the internet with a OC-768 connection, and enjoy speeds of up to 39,813.12 Mbit/s.

Yes, I want that one. Who do I give my money to? You? I have two dump trucks full of money just asking to be dumped

I'd reccomend DSL service with speakeasy! We provide quality tech support for premium pricing!

You might actually check into Verizon FIOS if it's available. They're pretty cheap for awesome speeds.

Or the cheaper route would be to just sneak onto you friends' computers, and cap their torrent download speeds at say 50 kbps.

Denial wrote:I'd reccomend DSL service with speakeasy! We provide quality tech support for premium pricing!

You might actually check into Verizon FIOS if it's available. They're pretty cheap for awesome speeds.

Since the town is so small there is only one DSL service available (Infobahn)

Captain_Obvious wrote:Or the cheaper route would be to just sneak onto you friends' computers, and cap their torrent download speeds at say 50 kbps.

Hmmmm

Denial wrote:I'd reccomend DSL service with speakeasy! We provide quality tech support for premium pricing!

omg! you corporate whore!@

Captain_Obvious wrote:Or the cheaper route would be to just sneak onto you friends' computers, and cap their torrent download speeds at say 50 kbps.

actually the better route is to cap the upload speed, there is alot less bandwidth on the upload side with DSL, and UT needs alot of that upload speed to sync your player position on servers, just go into thier preferences and put a global cap of about 10kbps

Oh I figured that capping upload speeds along with the download speeds went without saying.

Hell or just turn them over to the RIAA and you have access to your own connection with no other users! or MPAA if they're downlolading movies.

Denial wrote:Hell or just turn them over to the RIAA and you have access to your own connection with no other users! or MPAA if they're downlolading movies.

But then I'll have to pay $105 more for rent each month!

Rickshaw wrote:But then I'll have to pay $105 more for rent each month!

If it means getting a fellow qoou back in the game, I'm pretty sure that our members would be happy to chip in to cover that $105.
(never mind the fact that just getting DSL would be cheaper.)

Captain_Obvious wrote:Oh I figured that capping upload speeds along with the download speeds went without saying.

oh i figured that there is no need to cap d/l, thus his roomates wont notice slowness in downloads, upload is what really affects it.

Oh I figured you're retarded. ggs.

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