Recently I have been having some problems with using the college's internet connection.  I am the only one experiencing these problems and I have not had these problems in the past.  My major problems are:

VERY VERY slow upload speed (durring test).
Somewhat  slow download speed (durring test).
Problems with using Diablo II (my main problem).  When using Diablo II, I will get 30-70 ping for a few minutes, then I will get 4000-5000 ping spikes.  Sometimes I will not beable to connect at all, sometimes it takes 10-30 seconds, and other times it is so redicusly fast that I never see the "connecting" screen. I am the only one that I know of on campus or Battle.net with these problems.

Some Info:
I'm running Windows XP Pro.
When the internet DID work correctly, I got up to 8 Mbps download and 6 Mbps upload
Currently I get 2.5 Mbps download and 45 Kbs (not Mbs).
I am not running any tweak programs.
I just scanned for spyware and viruses.
I have no software firewalls (but the college itself has firewalls).
I have the latest microsoft updates.


Using tracert on testmy.net versus battle.net.  Remember, I'm the only one with this kind of problem on battle.net, so it's not the site that is the problem.

Tracing route to testmy.net [67.19.36.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  138.247.56.1
  2     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  138.247.16.1
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  dsu-to-ddn-internet-cisco.dsu.edu [138.247.28.1]
  4     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  206.176.71.77
  5     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  ddn-internet-to-madison.core.rt.k12.sd.us [206.176.106.50]
  6    17 ms    17 ms    17 ms  144.223.34.157
  7    17 ms    18 ms    16 ms  sl-bb25-chi-4-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.117]
  8    17 ms    16 ms    17 ms  sl-bb21-chi-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.89]
  9    38 ms    36 ms    38 ms  sl-bb21-fw-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.54]
 10    37 ms    37 ms    37 ms  sl-bb20-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.217]
 11    37 ms    38 ms    37 ms  sl-st21-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.17]
 12    38 ms    39 ms    37 ms  144.232.29.97
 13    44 ms    45 ms    38 ms  sl-theplanet-3-0.sprintlink.net [144.228.250.114]
 14    38 ms    39 ms    38 ms  dist-vlan32.dsr3-1.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.85.127.61]
 15    38 ms    41 ms    40 ms  dist-vlan21.dsr1-1.dllstx2.theplanet.com [70.85.127.67]
 16    39 ms    39 ms    38 ms  dsr2-1-v2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [12.96.160.39]
 17    43 ms    43 ms    43 ms  gig1-0-2.tp-car9-2.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.86]
 18    43 ms    44 ms    49 ms  6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com [67.19.36.6]
Trace complete.

Tracing route to battle.net [63.241.83.59]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  138.247.56.1
  2     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  138.247.16.1
  3     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  dsu-to-ddn-internet-cisco.dsu.edu [138.247.28.1]
  4     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  206.176.71.77
  5     2 ms     3 ms     2 ms  ddn-internet-to-madison.core.rt.k12.sd.us [206.176.106.50]
  6    33 ms    35 ms    33 ms  12.126.174.37
  7    35 ms    35 ms    57 ms  GBr6-p30.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.123.9.70]
  8    35 ms    34 ms    34 ms  tbr1-p013801.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.122.11.173]
  9    50 ms    50 ms    52 ms  tbr1-cl4.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.10.30]
 10    95 ms    98 ms    94 ms  tbr1-cl2.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.42]
 11    93 ms    93 ms    93 ms  gar4-p300.sffca.ip.att.net [12.123.13.174]
 12    98 ms    97 ms    99 ms  idf22-gsr12-1-pos-6-0.rwc1.attens.net [12.122.255.222]
 13    96 ms    97 ms    96 ms  mdf2-bi8k-2-eth-2-1.rwc1.attens.net [216.148.209.14]
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
(15 through 30 time out aswell).


I hope someone can help.

To prevent confusion, it's "My computer" in english. Also, you should set it to 100 full duplex if you're in a network, and 10 half duplex when going from the network card straight to your modem.



Hello fellow D2 player
I no longer play on baal.net. because of the lag. Try a different realm, like Europe instead of USwest or east. If the lag persists, try playing offline, since the lag won't disappear soon with all the botting around.

I have tried everything.  Unforunatly, other people in the campus are now also having the same problem as I am.  It seems that the college changed the upload cap from 6Mbps to 50Kbps.  Is there any way to get rid of the cap?

If there is no way to get rid of the cap, is there a way to compress the data (or something) to make the internet more efficent?

I think he means they cap the individual users to that, not the entire campus.