Bandwith For WoW clients

[_urban_]

Hello guys,

I am currently enrolled at a small technical college in Texas and we are on a Partial T1 line that has been installed. We (the students) have been experiencing very slow download rates and very slow internet surfing. An average download speed would be around 24 kb/s. Most of our school has moved to online classes we have to take tests and stream our lectures over the net. From what i have herd. WoW is causing these problems. There are about 150 people that live on campus. Not everyone has a computer but a partial T1 line that should be sufficient right? So we have about 10 - 20 people play WoW and guildwars could these games be causing this unbelievably slow download rates? What i need to know is how much bandwidth is used for 1 client and what ports WoW uses. This way i can take this up with the administration to get these ports blocked so we can be back to the normal download speeds. I have plenty of supporters for this to take place at my school. BUT i need hard proof that this is what is what is causing these problems. If anyone knows about a program that i can see where the majority of the bandwith is being used in the case that it is not WoW i would appreciate the info. Thanks for your time.

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[anarklov3r]

It all depends on your upload bandwidth. i think a single client on WoW requires something like 10kbs upload

so 20 people playing brings you up to 200kbs upload. if youve got a 256 upload cap then well i guess that would explain it.

If your not sure, just ask the network admin to block the realm for WoW (i think its us.worldofwarcraft.com) and that should not allow anybody to log on.

Give it a shot.

 

[_urban_]

Hmm... i have herd it taking up a full 6mb connection and others on the network not being able to do anything what so ever... im going to the network admin to get some answers today. Lets see what they have to say...

 

[aceindy]

FYI: Ascent uses approx 1Kb/s upload per client.

 

[_urban_]

just does not seem like enough = /

 

[leway21]

Partial T1 ewww. Kinda sad I have two 26/2 MB lines and a 10/10 MB line in my house.

 

[Airforce999]

Partial T1 ewww. Kinda sad I have two 26/2 MB lines and a 10/10 MB line in my house.

Forgive me for saying, But what the heck does that have anything to do with this person's post? He's looking for help, Not wanting to brag about slow internet (And btw 26/2 MB lines is also very slow so you shouldn't flame anyone over that)

 

[anarklov3r]

hey hey hey! cut it out..

i have a 10mbit down / 256kbit up connection.