Unless I'm playing at 4 am I have consistent spikes of 200-300 ping. It's unbearable, is this normal?

unless you download over 2gb+ a day, some people experience throttliing

Originally Posted by Leeoku

unless you download over 2gb+ a day, some people experience throttliing

Hmmmm, maybe it was that 1.2gb new IT Crowd episode yesterday

What exactly does it throttle, does it affect my roommate too?

Throttles your individual lan connection probably

Give up the games, you're in university. This is coming from someone who was semi-pro in halo 2 (Top 32 FFA, Orlando '07). Once you get to university, it is time to get over that chit.

Still a good stress reliever with moderation

DoTA2 / HoN > LoL anyways

Ehhh, still no improvement after no downloads for a while. Guess I'll take naed's advice

It may have a throttle effect for like 2 days. Try later else complain to uts

I think everyone has a 2GB/day limit or something like that. Once you go over that, you have shitty internet for the next day or so.
Make sure you're using your ethernet cable too, wifi on res sucked.

I can confirm that the throttling gets reset at 12AM everyday, however sometimes you get throttled even before downloading anything for the day.. this is so frustrating eugh you can't do anything with ping like that

Turns out it was my router! With a direct connection everything is dandy. Never woulda expected such big issues from a router 5 feet away.

Sorry man, LoL > DOTA/HON.