xbox question

[Zerstorer]

guys i know that this is off the topic from file sharing, but I am in desperate need of help and if anyone knows any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated

here is my problem

I am on a college network and I have xbox live. Now with the speeds of the lan, the game online is perfect. No lag whatsoever. Now its like freaky dial up. Hardly connect, bouncing all over, just plain LAG! I know its prolly my lan network but I was just trying to see if it was me. The funny thing is that most of the students have already left for break and they do use p2p which slows the network down

here is the following of what I did
I go through a router. I reset the router to the factory defaults(this is what i did last time to fix my problem) Nothing
I updated my router, nothing

I disconnected the router and plugged teh xbox directly into the wall and configured it, nothing

I wiped any trace of spyware, adware or useless files on my computer, knowing its a long shot that this was causing the problem

thats what I did and still Dial up
the error message I get is "Network conditions may affect game play" do you still want to continue. I had the same problem back in january that lasted for 3 weeks until I reseted my router. If anyone has any more ideas to see if its me causing the lag and not the network. I woul apreciate it. If not well least thanx for listening to me, cause I am so pissed off

[hawkburn]

Plug the same network cable into your computer that you are plugging into your xbox. If the speed still sucks, then its the network connection. If it's not.. what have you changed lately? New CAT5 cable maybe? Different dorm room? Different Ethernet port in the wall?

Just narrow down the possibilities a litte, and ask your network admin if the network has been slow lately.. or if they're limiting outbound bandwidth. XBOX live used to (dont play it anymore) give me the "Network conditions may affect game play" on my line, when no activity was going through. I knew it wasnt my down speed (1.5Mbps) but that it was probably my uplink speed (128k -- at the time)

So check to see if they're limiting bandwidth.

[Zerstorer]

yep hawkburn did that too

i didnt change anything, the only thing I did was restore factory defaults, reset my router, etc etc. I know it may be my network but that same error was going on for 3 weeks, college networks no matter how unreliable they are, do not crash for that long or slow down

Xbox on my network is not banned, the network admin says its allowed

i just want to make sure to find anything before I send the email againt o the admin

i will check again if they might off limit the bandwith again, thanx hawk

[shawners]

i would be wondering if they implemented some new detection software that detects things that could be p2p and lower the bandwidth or something.. May ask the network admin.

[hawkburn]

i would be wondering if they implemented some new detection software that detects things that could be p2p and lower the bandwidth or something.. May ask the network admin.

Very possible. Is what your talking about, Shawners, a program that - when it detects a certain amount of data in a given time over a certain port, it blocks that port? That's what I'm thinking, givin your suggestion, because online gaming constantly maxes out my 1.5 Mbps/256 kpbs connection, and it lags like hell on some servers. So I can only imagine how much traffic it would take per second to have seamless gaming, though now I can't wait till college comes in two years.

[shawners]

i thought of that story of where bandwidth was costing universitys 50g's. And i know some had to use http tunneling to get songs downloaded. Closing popular ports from kazaa and etc.