Extremely High Ping?!?!???!!?!

[Jack Bauer]

This is weird. I'm on a laptop, and on that laptop I have played tremulous a lot. I'm usually playing from The University Of Akron. My ping is usually low except for the last few days. I have noticed that over yesterday and today, my ping is just getting higher and higher, and now, it is like 1200. The internet here is excellent so what the hell is going on?!

[David]

Your internet connection sucks.
Ping is 100% connection, so either the connection sucks or your filling it with other crap.

[Rocinante]

"connection sucks" could also mean that the university is throttling the kind of traffic that you need for Tremulous (specifically UDP traffic).  Some places do in order to throttle things like streaming video and such.

Try some other games that use UDP, chat with other students, I'm willing to bet they all suffer the same fate.  In which case complaining to the university IT folks might be in order; or do what I did, get a job there, and work your way up to controlling the firewall yourself :>

[Jack Bauer]

Well, its not the connection, becuase I have always (besides today and yesterday) had a low ping so...

[Rocinante]

As someone who administers a firewall at a university, that can change in milliseconds.  Just because it worked yesterday doesn't mean they didn't throttle it today...

[KillerWhale]

Is it possible to change your client's connection port to an HTTP port?
If you can, that will bypass most throttling; it would be way too time-consuming to check all HTTP traffic.

[Edit: Please note that there is a troubleshooting subforum, please use that for these issues in the future.]

[Rocinante]

[Edit: Please note that there is a troubleshooting subforum, please use that for these issues in the future.]

Hey, whaddya know I hadn't even noticed that.  Fixt.

Is it possible to change your client's connection port to an HTTP port?
If you can, that will bypass most throttling; it would be way too time-consuming to check all HTTP traffic.

While you theoretically could get things to work to port 80, if the server owner were allowed to do so and wanted to, what you cannot do is change UDP traffic to TCP traffic.  Web traffic (HTTP) is on port 80, TCP.  Tremulous uses UDP traffic for its connections.

But really, it could be any number of problems, none of which can we easily diagnose when we're not there.  So ruling out some possibilities (by trying other games, and talking to other students on campus) is the best you can do to start.

EDIT: Oh, also.. it's not time consuming at all to check all HTTP traffic.  I do it for viruses and malware, it's called "deep packet inspection" and many higher-end firewalls can be told to just do it without further configuration.