So I recently just moved into a college dorm, and me and my roommate were testing the internet...

So I recently just moved into a college dorm, and me and my roommate were testing the internet. We get about 70 up and down with WiFi, but wired the speeds are sub 10 up/down. We both have cat 6 and have tested both our computers, and we believe the cable in the walls is just really fucking old!

I opened the wall up, and inbetween gasps of asbestos I grabbed a few photos of the labeling on the cable. Can anyone help identify so I can get this sorted out? Ill post all the shots I took, would appreciate the help.

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Read the cable you fucking faggot.

It's jammed into the fucking wall and has no identification other than worn numbers, be my guest, figure it out

>destruction of property so you can get faster vidya

kys you fucking faggot

You go ahead and be happy with 10mbs up and down for your speeds. 10 grand a year and I would expect cable not a decade old

Use wireless you dumb can't it's like 7 times fatser

No chip or USB

Here's an idea, siphon in the wifi through a repeater and leave the wires alone. You aren't at school to be playing vidya and if you care about ping like you're some comp playing faggot. You can just kys.

You really think this is fine? Go ahead and have fun, use it for everyday purposes.

Might be 10mbps ethernet only? You should ask the IT department to look at it.

Fuck you

I'll talk to em soon, was just wondering if the cable is gimping the speed or its some other reason. I asked to know if that was really the case, in which I would just suck it up and buy a card.

This is the best answer. As OP said here for 10 grand a year he should be able to get something going. You should not be tearing into the wall, though, OP.

It doesnt say "CAT" on it so you can't identify what type of cabling it is.

I would highly recommend not fucking with it because cabling is a bitch and it could take months for that shit to get repaired.

Everything slotted back in fine, cable had plenty of slack. Won't be taking it apart again, though

Could just be an overloaded ethernet network?

That's a possibility, I've gave it a test at various times of the day and the highest speed was about 9 down.

No worries then. Honestly if you have AC you are doing better than most dorms at my Uni which runs 20K a year or better. We do have fiber though :^)

No spiders behind the panel? If you tried that here you would probably have pieces of brickwork and dead bugs all over the carpet.

80 degrees here now, 87 was in for move in day. We got used to it

Just tons of dusty pink insulation, lucky I didnt get a creepie crawlie

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I'm pretty sure this is it, welcome to pre-y2k. Thanks for advice

I do, every fucking day, you stupid spoilt manchild. It's absolutely fine and useable. Jesus christ stop trying to be such a retard.

"spoilt"
it's like you didn't even read the thread, never change Sup Forums

This, OP's Ethernet speeds are part of the new equality program they have.

When I was in a dorm ~6 years ago I got a look at the wifi situation. There were like 6 fairly good long range wifi routers hooked up to a main hub, and then like a dozen 12-way splitters hooked up wiring every dorm room with lan.

sounds like your problem OP. the wifi routers are plugged in as close to the source as your gonna get, your lan connection is probably shared with everybody on your floor through a single port

10/1 is the fastest available in my area, there was no service this far out 2 years ago. we were using cell network and a repeater :\

I have a "Data B" slot, ill run another check on a different computer for it. If they are almost the same, a single port is pretty believable. But inside I saw two separate wires. WiFi works great, but I'm already strapped for cash.

Here is our side by side using two "supposed" different internet jacks. Done within 4 seconds of eachother

what speed does your ethernet card negotiate at? maybe you're plugged into a 10Mbps switch (or even worse, a hub).

I'm using the Killer E2200 Gigabit Ethernet Controller on a MSI Z97 Mobo, my buddy has an P8Z77-V Asus mobo and has the same speeds.

Contact your dorm's maintenance and let them fix it.

>You should not be tearing into the wall
he removed 2 screws
calm down spaz

This is perfectly usable you autist
I have to deal with 0.7 mbps, suck it up

>4Mbs is considered "unusable" for everyday purposes

What are your "everyday purposes", hosting a torrent tracker? Hoarding JAVs on your back-to-school macbook? Or are you just so spoiled that you really think 4 Mb is so dreadfully low? Especially considering you're leeching off your dorm's communal internet, news flash, you're not the only one using that connection.

Seriously OP, everyone's asking you but you refuse to respond, what are you ACTUALLY doing that those speeds are "unusable"?

Use ethtool and check your connection. If the Speed value doesn't match the biggest advertised link modes (Advertised or Link partner advertised) then your cable or the connections are fucked/old. Call IT and tell them to step the fuck up.

If you're too dumb to do that then check how many wires are coming out of the big wall cable. Check the order of the colors and compare them to pic related.

What happens if you go into your NIC settings to auto set the speed to 100/1000mbit ?

it's actually more than i do so stfu you crying babie with your class at 10 grand a year paid by your parents

>school monitoring internet traffic
>they see this page
>b& from internet priveleges for dismantling the ethernet system in your room

That feel when i get 200mbps on a good day for free. Better stop living in a shit tier country

I run off less on my home network you fucking tard. Bitch more fag

>3.86 Mbps
Man, and here I share 3.0 Mbps with 3 other roommates and get along just fine, and I'm a heavy gamer. Won't be streaming anytime soon but if I do need to play vidya I just wait til everyone is asleep or not using the internet. What are you doing, streaming 1080p anime on Crunchyroll? Just watch it in 480p, famicom. As a colledge student all you should be worried about is emailing your homework to your teachers and messaging friends to organize a study hall and actually study. You don't have time to be playing vidya games. You need to be concentrating on getting that degree and getting laid.

That's pretty standard for a shitty dorm room, what where you expecting?

>inbetween gasps of asbestos
You just ruined your lungs and damaged property for potential faster internet speed. Nice job asshole.

>faggots mistake bits of fiberglass insulation and dust for asbestos
This is the sad state of college education.

>all these butthurt responses
my dorm has 700/700 for 5€/month
i'm also from eastern europe

to make things clear, that's in Mb

God it feels good to be at a Uni that gives a shit about it's internet.

>They're in the process of rolling out AC WiFi to all buildings
>They partake in Eduroam

>tfw glorious Canadian comradenet

janet = botnet

who is your provider?

Why don't you just buy a pci wifi card for the time being

>going to a university that doesn't provide gigabit connections

sorry senpai

University AT Buffalo

Yeah: the full name is State University of New York, University at Buffalo.

why dont u just use the wifi

Rogers

>"free"
Have fun when the socialism bubble bursts.

$50/mo

Upload sucks but I really can't complain for US standards.

Maybe he was joking?

I was doing 25-man raids on WoW with 0.4 Mbps down / 0.2 Mbps up back in 2010.

Fuck off you whiny bitch.

>Maine

Fucking new england area, always spoiled brats.

You have 70 up and down? Just use the Wi-Fi you dumb cunt, that's plenty fast.