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Offline DWRoelands

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It's 8:45AM, the room is less than 25% full and this is what the connection looks like.



It's been faster in previous years.

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Re: Is this year's internet connection weaker/smaller than last year's?
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2015, 07:54:12 AM »
Each person is allotted a specific amount of speed. That speedtest will ONLY show YOUR allotment as it's maximum.

TL:DR - Speedtesting will NOT show the maximum bandwidth at the LAN but only YOUR portion.

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Re: Is this year's internet connection weaker/smaller than last year's?
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2015, 08:20:29 AM »
Thanks for the reply.

I understand that the test only shows my throughput, but even when the room was sparsely populated, I was seeing high latency to outside servers (League of Legends, World of Warcraft, etc.).

Am I correct that this year's connection is not as robust as previous years?

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Re: Is this year's internet connection weaker/smaller than last year's?
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2015, 08:35:46 AM »
You are incorrect. It's the same connection as last year and the year before.

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Re: Is this year's internet connection weaker/smaller than last year's?
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2015, 09:04:54 AM »
I noticed somethings that could be adjusted so I made some tweaks to the firewall. Hopefully it's a bit better for you now. (Though each person is limited to a 2/2 connection so no one person can monopolize the connection.

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Re: Is this year's internet connection weaker/smaller than last year's?
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2015, 09:20:44 AM »
Thanks for the replies and the adjustments.