I just went through my logs to see when ResNet up here was down or otherwise having issues. Since I moved in September 6th (and started keeping track), there wasn’t a single day where the internet wasn’t out.
Between September 6th and 30th, the service was down briefly 64 times. September 27th was notable for having seven different small outages, while the 17th and 28th saw five each.
Also notable was a general instability for two and a half hours in the late afternoon of the 8th, a few hours of connectivity issues to the internet (but not internally) early on the 10th, two hours of slowness on the 17th and DNS issues on the 27th.
For comparison purposes, over the summer there were many fewer outages (I logged less than eighty minor ones and a handful of larger ones for the whole four months I was here for summer semester) and stability seemed much higher.
Another interesting note was that average ping on the internal network nearly tripled between my logs for the summer and the average ping times for September, with latency to the rest of the internet about doubling. Connection speed between the summer and September’s average (as measured by scheduled connection speed tests) was about halved from around 39Mb/s to around 17Mb/s. There is also much more variation show over the day, with speeds getting up to the 65Mb/s range in the early morning hours, and dropping to 7-12Mb/s during peak hours.
Upload speeds are even more abysmal than they were in the summer, averaging around 850kb/s, down from an average of around 1.5Mb/s in the summer.
The conclusion that I can draw from this is that the network is just not meant for the load it is being subjected to. Over the summer, when residence was at half-capacity or less, the network was generally fast and quite stable. One cause of the increased latency and decreased transfer rates could be that the outgoing connection is not fast enough for the load it is under, which is likely given was (last I had heard at least, it may have changed) a paltry 200Mb/s.