Fast internet, Fast Steam, slow browsing.

[n00b1n8R]

So I'm living on-campus now and that means I get to use the uni's internets in my room.

Look at this.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/726110690.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

That shit is fast.
Anyway, so I can DL games at like 1.3 mb/s with steam, obviously their servers can't pump it fast enough :realsmug:

BUT
It takes me ages to download any given 1 mb gif from 4chan, I have to buffer videos from youtube every few seconds, downloading files from other sites is no better.

wtf, please help D:

ps. this is only on-campus that I'm having this problem. My internet is WAY slower at home and I can watch youtube and shit fine.

[paladin]

How many people are using the connection

[Ganon]

latency

[n00b1n8R]

a lot but that still wouldn't explain why it was so fast on steam and yet so slow with the other stuff would it?

[jcap]

See if changing your DNS server helps. Sometimes slow speeds could be due to the way you're being routed.

I had an episode with OpenDNS for several months where YouTube videos would load at like 100 kb/s. When I switched to Level3, the videos loaded almost instantly (took maybe 3 seconds for HD). Instead of taking 6 hops to get to YouTube, it was making around 15 hops and some routers even had severe latency. They blamed it on Verizon...

[Reaper Man]

I have similar issues, but the way the school has set up the network, I can't change my DNS server.

[Rook]

I get the same problem with youtube videos loading super slow, where to change DNS?