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Sep 24, 2008, 01:53 AM // 01:53
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2006
Guild: Off Doing Better Things [afk]
Profession: Mo/W
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Getting horrible ping on college campus
I moved to college recently and it requires that I run Cisco NAC Web Agent to connect to the internet. My speed is fine on my web browser (firefox), and I've taken a speed test and it came up great. However, my ping in GW is anywhere from 1600 to 3600, which makes the game unplayable. Any reason for this? I've tried putting -port 80 in the shortcuts command line by recommendation of a friend, but it didnt help. Any assistance is appreciated.
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Sep 24, 2008, 02:54 AM // 02:54
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SATown~Tx
Guild: Guild Hopper!
Profession: R/
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ive never heard of putting the port in the cmd line.
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Sep 24, 2008, 02:55 AM // 02:55
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Mar 2007
Guild: [SOHK] School of Hard Knocks
Profession: R/Mo
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i can't offer any advice but im just agreeing with you. I'm at a small private college and we get crappy internet 24/7 but i belive that the other students using it is to blame. Some times i get great ping! thats at 2 am tho.... mayb you should try different times of the day/night? bc multipul ppl hooked up to the same internet can drag it down. but then u said that ur normal browser is fine.. so that disproves my advice. idk im just here to complain with ya man! 2000-4000 ping is very misurable i can only buy/sell things since that doesn't require good ping. im done ranting for now!
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Sep 24, 2008, 02:55 AM // 02:55
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Bandwidth shaper most likely.
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Sep 24, 2008, 05:41 AM // 05:41
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2008
Profession: R/
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If you forward your port (if not, nevermind), make your computer find IP address automatically.
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Sep 24, 2008, 10:24 PM // 22:24
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The Fallen One
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Oblivion
Guild: Irrelevant
Profession: Mo/Me
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Most universities block specific sections of ports, namely those associated with some games (some unis and colleges block all game ports to promote better academics). The fact is, your university probably is blocking off a port that is common to Guild Wars.
The only choice you have is to contact the university's network management center and discuss the port with them. Usually and unfortunately, they don't have sympathy for gaming requests though. Option 2: Move off campus and get your own apartment and own internet (or apartment provided internet)
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Sep 29, 2008, 05:33 PM // 17:33
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Winnipeg, Mantioba Canada
Guild: Terra Noise[Zraw]
Profession: Mo/E
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Its all lies! I play guild wars at school, and they tell you they block the ports. When i first bring up gw it says connecting.....then goes error can't connect retry? then i hit enter twice really fast, and i get on LOL
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