University of Nottingham

Nottingham

How is PC gaming in university accomodation? (Catered/Non-Catered)

Hi, I am a prospective undergraduate and I after looking on the internet I have heard that the campus internet can be quite poor/block online gaming, which is something that I am interested in. If a current student could let me know if it works/ how fast it is that would be great. I would be interested in using steam and also some blizzard games like hearthstone or soon overwatch.

Reply 1

High Stakes

They block WoW and pretty much every STEAM game m7. Lord Gaben led an army against Nottingham in 2012 but suffered great casualties.

RIP to ur gaming rig. Death from cobwebs n dust. x

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Reply 2

StaticImpulse

Original post by High Stakes

They block WoW and pretty much every STEAM game m7. Lord Gaben led an army against Nottingham in 2012 but suffered great casualties.

RIP to ur gaming rig. Death from cobwebs n dust. x

Is this just on the campus internet and catered halls, or does this apply to the self catered as well? nevertheless this is pretty annoying.

Reply 3

Acis

I play Dota often, never had any problems. Self-catered hall.

Reply 4

Jimmy_M

Does anyone use Ethernet connection and can give the actual down/up speeds?

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Reply 5

finkployd

Original post by Jimmy_M

Does anyone use Ethernet connection and can give the actual down/up speeds?

catered - jubilee campus

Reply 6

Jimmy_M

Original post by finkployd

catered - jubilee campus

Thanks a lot!
Not too bad then, was expecting worse if I'm honest. How many ports are there in your room?

Reply 7

finkployd

Original post by Jimmy_M

Thanks a lot!
Not too bad then, was expecting worse if I'm honest. How many ports are there in your room?

Yes it is decent, haven't had any problems with it as of yet. There are two ports in every room as far is i'm aware, only one of mine works tho :/

Reply 8

milky228

University park is better than Jubilee, my ethernet cable broke moving out so this is wi-fi speeds. Get 17m/s ping on ethernet playing LoL.

Also, I can't connect to teamspeak or steam or LoL over Eduroam, anyone else got this problem?

Reply 9

finkployd

Original post by milky228

jelly of those speeds
pretty much anything gaming is blocked on eduroam i believe

Reply 10

StaticImpulse

Original post by milky228

Thanks for the reply, those speeds look nice. What exactly do you mean by Eduroam? I had heard people say that some gaming at Nottingham was blocked but I wasn't sure to what degree.

Reply 11

ruby420

I've heard halls block PSN too, is this true?

Reply 12

XxKingSniprxX

Original post by StaticImpulse

Just change unis. DansGame

Reply 13

finkployd

Original post by StaticImpulse

Thanks for the reply, those speeds look nice. What exactly do you mean by Eduroam? I had heard people say that some gaming at Nottingham was blocked but I wasn't sure to what degree.

eduroam is the wifi in halls and anywhere on campus. they block all (or most) gaming on it so you have to use ethernet which works fine

Reply 14

WarriorLlama

I played Minecraft (still do) and had no problems with the internet back when I lived in 1st year catered accommodation.

Reply 15

anonwinner

Original post by milky228

Holy ****. These are literally 50x better than mine at home wtf

Reply 16

eganoipse

I play steam games for CSS (Sorry, I still can't stop playing after ALL these years) & FM16... But I also have an Xbox One. I hope theres no online stipulations regarding me playing that?