Is there anyway to decrease latency and ping while living in buffalo state dorms.?

Question

I just moved to live on campus at buffalo state, and the dorm room internet may as well be dial-up. We were told we would have wireless but they then changed their mind, and these CAT3 cables cannot support a dorm full of computers. Any way to increase my Internets performance? I am using a Dell XPS: 4gigs of memory, 8800 GT, quad core processor, and was using a belkin wireless usb adapter, i am now using the in-motherboard ethernet connection.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, not really. (Are they really CAT3 and not CAT5 cables? If so .. wow. Old stuff.) You have no way to control or manage the university's network to get a better quality of service (QoS), so there's not a lot you can do but complain .. often and loudly. Your Dell is a desktop computer, right? If it was a laptop, I might suggest at least periodically stopping in the student center or library if they have Ethernet (wired/or wireless) - at least, if you have any heavy downloading to do. Most campuses nowadays have some Antivirus on a campus server they require you to download and install (along with some other tools and files). This also assumes that your experience is unusual and just your dorm or section of campus of course. If the problem is campus-wide .. move off campus next year.

Answer 2

Just you put a Intermediate proxy server.  It will store the frequently used web pages.  When you are giving the same request again it won't get the page from the Internet, instead of internet it will get the page from your local proxy server.  So you will feel like your connection is so fast......