I am on my dorm's network.  I remember reading that it is possible to "reserve" a specific amount of bandwidth, but I do not recall where.  My connection is at a crawl during peak hours and it is very hard to get anything done.  Does anyone know of anything to do to increase speeds?Go to Control Panel. Click on 'Network and Internet Connections', click on 'Network Connections', right click on the internet connection you want to speed up, and click on Properties. Under the general tab, disable everything except "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)".

Of course, if you are on a network, don't attempt this.

Dorm means domain, right? Sorry, I don't know what you MEAN by "dorm".Ask for a different agreement from your ISP provider. It will cost more.
Be careful to ask an agreement with minimum bandwidth guarantee - that minimum bandwidth guarantee will be available no matter how "crawled" will be your network (in fact it does, but in the exceptional cases). I hope your ISP is trustful. I believe you can find some info to solve your problem here.
http://www.fatpipeinc.com/addons/qos/index.htmlWhen I say dorm I mean dormitory.  I live on campus at college.  The internet is free for me and very slow.  We are not allowed to use an alternative internet source so I have to use the one that they provide.  I am interested in increasing the amount of bandwidth that I am receiving.  I read somewhere that you can reserve up to 25% or something.  Everything is fine during the DAY, but in the evenings when everyone is home it gets ridiculously slow, dial up slow.  I know everyone cringed at just having to read that, think about having to use dial up again.  Now everyone should be willing to help.  No one should have internet this slow.The single possibility is to modify settings on one of CAMPUSES routers. I STRONGLY advise you: DON'T DO IT!

QoS? Yes, on a router, not on your local MACHINE. You brush for nothing your part of bandwidth, you have to have a bigger part of bandwidth and that it is done at one  of campus servers. Leave it like so, it's a lost cause from the start. I put here only  theory - I won't tell you how to actually do the modifications. DON'T DO IT!Try this     
 :-*http://www.opendns.com/ Quote from: dairyman on October 29, 2007, 01:14:38 AM

Go to Control Panel. Click on 'Network and Internet Connections', click on 'Network Connections', right click on the internet connection you want to speed up, and click on Properties. Under the general tab, disable everything except "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)".

Of course, if you are on a network, don't attempt this.

Dorm means domain, right? Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "dorm".

No one should have internet this slow.

I love that someome called me a Yank. That made me laugh.  I guess that if Yank is a blanket term for American, I am one.  Even though I do live in the North now I am actually a Reb(el) from Kentucky.  I pay over $40,000 to be here so I do not concern myself with the prohibitive costs of the university. Also, if it were possible to pay for my own personal connection, I would be glad to do so, but because of their contracts this is prohibited.
I was just asking if it is possible to increase speed in any way.  Whether it be some internal computer setting, a cable upgrade, or software upgrade?  Anything that I can do on my end that will increase my speeds. 

SFTU "Reb"...please.

If the "Rebs", or the Confederates as they were called, had won the American Civil war, maybe then we'd be calling you something different.  But had that happened, I doubt America would still exist.

You're just an arrogant suburbanite, aren't you?

The Apple community is full of people you'd get on with...

I love that someome called me a Yank. That made me laugh.