HL/CS:S ping issues

[SadbutTrue999]

Well, its probably ping in general problems, but anyway. My fraternity has a T1 line, its split between about 30 people. In games of CS:S on Half Life (i was just playing to see how my ping ended up doing), I was at a pretty steady.... 200 ping. Is there any way to bring this down (ie, console adjustments as in the original HL/TFC, patches, tweaks, etc.), or is this the best I can expect with a T1 split with that many people?

[Joel]

this the best I can expect with a T1 split with that many people?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Depends on a lot of other things. T-1 to 30 people, well, depends what the others are doing at the time.

More likely, how is your T-1 connected to the internet? Just a loop to another location (like eventually leading to the main backbone of your campus), or does your frat house have it's own, unique T-1 with direct connection to the internet right there at your building? My guess is your frat house has a T-1 connecting to the main backbone of your campus, and around there also passes through various quality of service/packet shaping, and out through the main feed for your campus (probably at least a couple of T-3s or higher).

School networks are quite hard to determine, as they all vary. But over the past few years, school IT guys have had a hard battle trying to keep their networks stable, and efficiently running for their main purpose. Fighting against peer to peer apps like Kazaa, games, worms 'n viruses from all the un protected computers (lack of good antivirus and lack of windows updates), etc etc. They try to cut down on that type of traffic, and prioritize other traffic that they want, web, etc.

[SadbutTrue999]

Depends on a lot of other things. T-1 to 30 people, well, depends what the others are doing at the time.

More likely, how is your T-1 connected to the internet? Just a loop to another location (like eventually leading to the main backbone of your campus), or does your frat house have it's own, unique T-1 with direct connection to the internet right there at your building? My guess is your frat house has a T-1 connecting to the main backbone of your campus, and around there also passes through various quality of service/packet shaping, and out through the main feed for your campus (probably at least a couple of T-3s or higher).

School networks are quite hard to determine, as they all vary. But over the past few years, school IT guys have had a hard battle trying to keep their networks stable, and efficiently running for their main purpose. Fighting against peer to peer apps like Kazaa, games, worms 'n viruses from all the un protected computers (lack of good antivirus and lack of windows updates), etc etc. They try to cut down on that type of traffic, and prioritize other traffic that they want, web, etc.

Well, I'm pretty sure its not connected to the school network itself. Last year i was in the dorms, and the network was rediculously fast (my computer was sharing the same basic network as thousands of others, and I would still get 3 megabyte a second download (byte, not bit)). So I almost wish it was. The T1 is a Covad unit, that we're paying 350 a month for I believe. bandwidth is sweet, but latency isn't wonderful. The ping is steady and doesnt' bounce around, but it is 200 or so, though I've only tried a few servers and since HL is just out the network might need to do some settling before I can conclude my ping is horrible. Anything I can do to help the situation?