Connection Problems!

well this is what happens everytime i go onto a server on bf2 now

firstly the loading is fine i get onto the server usually a ping around 40-60 and then after a couple of minutes (sometimes seconds) it suddenly freezes without warning and says

"there is a problem with you connection"

it just wont let me do anything then it logs out of the server goes back to bf2 and says "your connection to the server has been lost"

the only time it started doing this was wen I moved in to my College dormroom. Does anybody know wat the problem is. Is my schools connection bad? My internet is fast and dowloads are like extra fast so i dont understand y its happening. I freakin got a new laptop to play this game and now I can only play single player. Also does this with CSS.

 

I would talk to whomever is in charge of the Internet at your college's dorm.
It can't be a coincidence that multiple games start having connection problems at the same time when you've just moved to your dorm. Fast downloads are one thing, maybe the router (is it wireless?) doesn't allow for such bandwidth intensive applications like games.
So I would have a chat with whomever is in charge.

 

My school had a real crummy connection and I would get bumped all of the time because our connection would drop off. Its just one of the perils of dorm life. Make friends with the IT guys, they usually can get you some loopholes and help you through bandwidth and connection problems.

 

Well unless I have to put something in my laptop then some1 can tell me how IT guys at there school helped them through it. Or what they told you to do.

 

anybody!!

!!bump!!

 

are you using wifi or ethernet to connect? If wifi, it might be interference.

 

I'm connected with the ethernet and its really bad. If anybody can help please try.

 

It could also be an unwritten or written policy that limits your use of school bandwidth. I remember when Doom first came out and many used the school's servers to play the games and hogged quite a bit in system resources leading to a "No Doom" policy.

 

Is there any way around it?

 

I wouldn't think so unless you had administrative rights or know or are good hacker.

 

It's not necessarily intentional. He could just be getting horrid lag. Lag doesn't really affect download speed, but it will make games unplayable. They could have added another router, misconfigured one, lots of things that could cause the network to slow down like that that wouldn't necessarily be intentional. Games don't really use THAT much bandwidth relatively any more. It was huge overhead with Doom. Now, better networking code and more capacity have made gaming network usage relatively benign.
But I would call to ask them if anything changed. I can't see a school restricting gaming usage explicitly. They'd cut off all P2P before that. Gaming is at least legitimate.