Cannot play games on University Wifi...

You keep infering that I'm not allowed a hobby, why?

No we can only pay for a higher amount of daily usage. I already paid for the maximum.



I'm guessing you've never been at university LOL

Nobody at all, does nothing but study at University. That's ridiculous, I live at my Uni, am I supposed to study 16 hours, then sleep, then repeat? No, so stop being so ignorant. You're saying I'm not allowed a hobby, how silly.

Rocket League does, and it's the only game I would like to play. Thanks for your misinformed reply.


That was quite evidently a troll, nobody actually thinks like that. This uni doesn't have many gamers but yes they do and no nobody plays this game so nobody could help.

I'm sure this is not a problem for most students at the type of University I'm at, but I'm a gamer. In my spare time, I don't do much more than play games. Throughout the whole summer, I had started to even earn some money from these games.

Anyway, on to the point. In our University (that we live in), the wifi is bad. Really bad. I mean I can get 30 down and 15 up on a regular basis, but it's so incredibly inconsistent. I am unable to play any form of game that requires a constant sending/ recieving of data. It just lags consistently.

My only issue is, there seems to be nothing I can do about it. I'm supposed to just live with it. This is my main hobby, it's how I keep myself happy, so when you double the amount of revision I do a day, you better allow me some decent internet access. But they haven't, and I'm finding it incredibly hard to be productive because I'm always in a bad mood. Watching all my mates play games whilst I have to sit here and study, then when I finally get some free time I can't even join them.

I went to the IT office and they said it's to do with traffic, which is clearly a lie because I tried playing at 4:00am and it was still unplayable.

Why is this form of hobby not taken seriously? No university would ban people from reading books completely irrelevant to their course on their spare time, or playing a sport. In fact, they tend to encourage it. Yet my hobby, playing over the internet with friends, it given no recognision at all.

There has to be something I can do, I know as a fact I won't be able to cope for long like this, but of course I'm trying. Anyone been in a similar situation?

No my problem isn't that it was unexpected. It's that it's even a thing. Universities invest 100x more into helping students get drunk (bars, party rooms, drinks, all on site) than letting us play a game we enjoy with friends for a couple hours - does that not seem the slightest bit weird to you?

No my problem isn't that it was unexpected. It's that it's even a thing. Universities invest 100x more into helping students get drunk (bars, party rooms, drinks, all on site) than letting us play a game we enjoy with friends for a couple hours - does that not seem the slightest bit weird to you?

Nah I study Computer Science

I get wound up because I see investment into other hobbies, whilst I sit here not being able to persue mine. If nobody could do their hobbies, say everyone had to just give up fun for uni, then I wouldn't of got annoyed at all. Just seems silly that all other hobbies are covered and invested into

Thanks for the very informative reply

Yeah I use a hotspot, managed to persuade my parents to pay for it, I feel bad but I have even less money than them spare xD

Yeah but how is having a hooby not constructive? I study 10 hours a day, it surprises me that this world thinks my hobby just isn't important. Some people enjoy getting drunk, and this Uni has in-College bars and party rooms to literally assist in people getting drunk. Yet they can't just let me have a reliable internet connection? Seems a little backward to me, seems like my hobby just isn't valued as much.

What's speedtest reporting?

Christ's has just under 100Mbps up and down. Not sure about the ping. But it's wasn't that fast at the beginning - needed turning off/on again apparently...

What's speedtest reporting?

Christ's has just under 100Mbps up and down. Not sure about the ping. But I do know the Mbps rates weren't that fast at the beginning - needed turning off/on again apparently...

What uni is this curious , other than getting ur own wifi not much to be done.

Also if you dont mind asking what games do you play?

Nah its fine, I fixed it and am now performing better than ever academically. Please never give that advice again, I wouldn't of got into this University if I just played games and didn't study sufficient amounts. I'm not 9, I know how to manage my time, I just felt that hobbies are a necessity for my mental well being at such an intensive University.

Your primary school days are long gone. University is for hard work, not silly computer games.

How can you be a hobbyist gamer and complain about lag when using WIFI? Have you seen the average latencies one gets using WIFI? Lag is a given when using WIFI.

huehue I got 1ms/920/950Mb over ethernet when I first arrived

feel the struggles though, wi-fi is godawful, low res videos won't load from the far corner of my room on my phone

Thats a bit like saying "Marry me you ugly prick". Either you liked my advice or you didnt.

This post is rhetorical. Just pointing out a contradiction. I like contradictions as they make me feel less stupid. I admire intelects.

I'm facing the same problem now and I want to understand how you fix it, I am from UCL and it is really annoying, I'm the same like you in a bad mood everyday.