Some in-depth CS stuff

Ok, I'm trying to play EQ2 on the wired network.

 Can we say severe lag?

And don't go telling me "oh we're bandwidth constrained"  EQ2 uses about 100kbits/sec bandwidth.  Latency is something its sensitive to however, especially if the firewall isn't properly configured.  Why can't I ping 10.17.0.100?  Neither can I ping the outside world.

 If one of you would run wireshark, you'd see how saturated the network is by bittorrenting.

What's a better use of the network, file sharing of a possibly not-legal nature, or social gaming during the off hours?

There's an ethics question to this as well

Brian Bradford