Depends. Some universities block Xbox Live traffic. I'd imagine PC games have an easier time since it would be quite a task to block every PC game's connections. However console online connections are easily blocked and some colleges do choose to block them. That's rare, however.
As for campus connections being good, it is true that the connections are extremely good. However, that's because a university has thousands of people doing online activities simulatenously. I've noticed that (in dorms at least) your connection quality is entirely dependent on the time of day. For example, at my first dorm the internet was extremely slow during "prime time" (6-10 pm) when most kids were back in the dorms. You could forget gaming during that time too (I was still dabbling in WoW my first semester at college, and the ping for that game was 10000+ when I tried to connect from my drom). Keep in mind this was a dorm whose connection speed was several megabytes per second at the very beginning of the semester before most of the students had arrived. My other dorm experiences have been better, but generally speaking I get speeds no different than my cable connection at home. I can game fine with it, but it's nowhere near a godly speed like 10 MBPS.
Depends. Some universities block Xbox Live traffic. I'd imagine PC games have an easier time since it would be quite a task to block every PC game's connections. However console online connections are easily blocked and some colleges do choose to block them. That's rare, however.
As for campus connections being good, it is true that the connections are extremely good. However, that's because a university has thousands of people doing online activities simulatenously. I've noticed that (in dorms at least) your connection quality is entirely dependent on the time of day. For example, at my first dorm the internet was extremely slow during "prime time" (6-10 pm) when most kids were back in the dorms. You could forget gaming during that time too (I was still dabbling in WoW my first semester at college, and the ping for that game was 10000+ when I tried to connect from my drom). Keep in mind this was a dorm whose connection speed was several megabytes per second at the very beginning of the semester before most of the students had arrived. My other dorm experiences have been better, but generally speaking I get speeds no different than my cable connection at home. I can game fine with it, but it's nowhere near a godly speed like 10 MBPS.
gameguy6700
That's godly? My campus connection speed is 20 Mbps and time is never a factor...
Depends on the campus. For me, I can go online with my PS3 and Xbox but only with an ethernet cable. The speed is insanely fast. I can download a movie and watch it right away in HD.
Depends. Some universities block Xbox Live traffic. I'd imagine PC games have an easier time since it would be quite a task to block every PC game's connections. However console online connections are easily blocked and some colleges do choose to block them. That's rare, however.
As for campus connections being good, it is true that the connections are extremely good. However, that's because a university has thousands of people doing online activities simulatenously. I've noticed that (in dorms at least) your connection quality is entirely dependent on the time of day. For example, at my first dorm the internet was extremely slow during "prime time" (6-10 pm) when most kids were back in the dorms. You could forget gaming during that time too (I was still dabbling in WoW my first semester at college, and the ping for that game was 10000+ when I tried to connect from my drom). Keep in mind this was a dorm whose connection speed was several megabytes per second at the very beginning of the semester before most of the students had arrived. My other dorm experiences have been better, but generally speaking I get speeds no different than my cable connection at home. I can game fine with it, but it's nowhere near a godly speed like 10 MBPS.
Dark__Link
That's godly? My campus connection speed is 20 Mbps and time is never a factor...
Are we talking megabits or megabytes? Because I said 10MB not 10Mb. That said, 10MbPS is still 1.28MBPS which is pretty damn good considering the average in america is 500kBps. So you can see why I was saying 10MB is godly seeing as how it's 20x the average speed in America.
If it is anything like my campus, u have to call and give the mac address of ur xbox then wait 20 minutes before u can play. Although it was worth it as my campus had 45MB down and 15MB up
Yes, almost all campus connections are fine for that kind of thing. Most colleges have at least T1 internet everywhere. The one thing you do NOT want to do on your school's network, or in your dorm, is illegally download music/movies/games/software...you're about a hundred times more likely to get caught.
They generally have great connections. Download and Upload speeds tend to be much faster at night when people aren't using it. The ping is also good (I believe my brother's was ~2ms.
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