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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.
...but at least now I have the excuse that there is no FA.
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It has a "blame Microsoft" angle, what more do you want?
Do not try to read the fucking article. That is impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no fucking article.
It's just posted here so we can get reams of replies talking about how over-rated Halo is, how much the Xbox (made by Microsoft!) sucks, how great Nintendo is in comparison, and how games used to have more "fun" back in the olden days. The network problem is entirely secondary.
So it's pretty much like every other Slashdot Games post.
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Indeed, the story should be "More dipshit net admins with fancy-ass certificates but no brains fuck up QoS once more."
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Sadly enough, I know someone who chose his 4 year college based on ping times to his favorite Quake servers...
You'll probably be shocked to hear that he graduated by some sort of formality...
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Congratulations. Put it in a journal and you might get on the front page too.
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Wait a minute, you limited network usage for gamers in favor of academic users? Sounds like a pretty shitty school if you ask me. Everyone knows that school networks are for three things:
1) Downloading music and movies illegally.
2) Downloading pr0n.
3) Playing games, even crappy ones like Halo 3.
As you can clearly see homework and research are not on the list...
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"Halo 3" should be arrested immediately, brought to justice and then executed. And his bastard parrents too, for naming their kid "Halo 3" in the first place, I mean come on!
wait a min..
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it is the Covenants fault. They are trying to crash the internet ready for the next invasion.
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Recently I purchased one of the limited Halo 3 packages. It looked great. But the game wouldn't start! Upon further investigation I remember I microwaved the disk for 3 minutes for no particular reason whatsoever.
I'm still pissed off though. Nowhere on the package it didn't say specifically about microwaving Halo 3.
Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word!
Do not try to send UDP packets. That is impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no UDP.