Halo 3 Causing Network Issues

Recently at my university where I'm a student and a sys admin, we have been experiencing some odd outages, in particular since the 25th of September. The outages seemed to occur between 8 PM and 12:00 AM — peak gaming hours for our dorms. It just happens that Halo 3 came out on the 25th of September. Upon further investigation we found that our network routers were shaping TCP packets, but not UDP. Once we applied UDP shaping as well, all network outages ceased. Gamers complained, but university students attempting to access network resources such as our UNIX clusters were satisfied.

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you are an asshole

[Anonymous Coward]

Way to piss of gamers. Porn and gaming made the internet. Now you are sucking the very life out of it. All that will be left is eggheads like you who get off on power tripping.

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[cheesegoduk]

oh give it a rest, The Internet is just as useful for doing non work related stuff and students in there own time shouldn't be forced to suffer, especially when the uni advertises themselves has having fast Internet connections in halls when its really just a lie. Students who enjoy online gaming may pick a location to live based on having decent Internet, just the same as someone who enjoys any other hobby will take it into account when picking somewhere to live. And no, Students are allowed to have some free time other than being forced to work 24/7. The uni should buy in extra bandwidth or stop advertising as such.

Also, get over using that "Deal with it and go outside" crap, Its so cliche its not funny. Accept that different people enjoy different pastimes and interests and move on. Not everything thinks uni is about going down random pubs and getting hammered with people you couldn't give a shit about. They don't want to be forced to go outside just because some asshat decided it'd be fun to turn off the Internet connection because he thought they shouldn't sit inside all day.