is it just me, or is the internet running a lot slower than it should be?

I'm down in the quad, and its running like dialup for me. Some others in the quad have reported similar issues--but is this common all around?

resnet is F'd everywhere.

-ryan

good to know im not the only one

thanks


still sucks though

slow internet sucks any one know if it is temp or is something wrong

If there were no students, the departments would have no money. If the departments had no money, CIS could not afford to operate. Even though the existance of CIS would not be possible without the students, when departments complain about speed, we are the ones to get screwed. This, of course, seems to be the case with everything relating to student life on this campus as well. (How dare you park there for 5 minutes to turn in a paper!)

The rumors I heard originated last year and they were to the effect that the CIS would be limiting the entirety of the reshalls to a single T1 speed.... Well I'm not certain as I've not heard anything other than rumors, but depending on the amount of people using it, it may be even slower than that... I have a friend who kept doing those internet speed benchmark thingies, and getting constantly 1.5kbps up and 3.5 kbps down from the benchmark. That's not good, and since he said those were consistently the values he was getting, we probably get much less from high traffic sites. This is quite rediculous.

I noticed that the proxy is running from somewhere in the CS building subnet. Is CIS running it, or Ryan?

There is no proxy..

Speeds are limited, but from what I hear, it's far greater than a single T1. Something like 5 or 6 Mbit downlink. Still better than most ISP's in this town have.

No, from what I've heard, the big problem was there was a key router out in Kansas City causing huge slowdowns to the Internet.

We can't blame that one on CIS

Ok, the dorms get modem speeds and the computer labs get exteremely good speeds. And a router in KC is causing this?

I don't know where you guys are getting your info but it has nothing to do with a router in KC. CIS has cap'd all dorms because people were running servers. And from what I've heard it is set to a single t1, not 5mbit. Think a little, if it was a router, why would the lab computers work fine?

-Snoop

Is there anything that we students can do about this slow connection? Is there any way in the world that CIS would listen to a few hundred emails from disgruntled students? Anyone that reads this, could you generate some interest about a petition or something? That's all I have to say. I just wanted to know if anything is going to change with the connection anytime soon. Thanks for listening.

Mike Griffin
griff@umr.edu

yes, i think a mail bomb is a great idea, who wants to organize this?

-snoop

I never said anything about a mail bomb. I'm not sure how many students are in the res halls, but I would assume that it is over 2,000 people. If only 10% of those students are unhappy about the slower connection this year, that would still be about 200 people. If all of the 200 send a polite complaint to CIS, then that would certainly not be a mailbomb. It may, however, present a situation to CIS that they may currently be unaware of. I'm not at all suggesting that someone send hundreds of emails from their account with a body consisting of a message like the following: "CIS = GAY! YUOR CONNECTION SUKZ!" That would only make them less likely to want to help us with our problem.

Mike Griffin
griff@umr.edu

CIS has never seemed to care how much people complain about something, be it through emails or a petition presented to them. My thought is that everyone should confront the people who can change it in person, and possibly bother them enough by wasting their time with complaints. Maybe that would cause them to change things. As I see it, there are three people who would possibly be able to change things. The director of residence life, James Murphy (jamesm@shuttle.cc.umr.edu), for one must have some sort of control over things around here and could probably influence CIS to change it. Then, obviously, the director of CIS, Dave Dearth, (dearth@umr.edu), would have the necessary power to change things. Finally, the network administrator, Richard Altheide (rwa@umr.edu), could probably influence things. Be careful if you're CSci or CpE because Altheide is the only teacher of CS285 which you'll probably end up taking.