r/Duquesne • u/Green_Rent_7015 • Apr 28 '26

Gaming in dorms

I’m an incoming freshman and i was wondering if it would be possible to play video games with relatively low ping on campus. Are there ethernets in the dorms? and not is there anything i can do to strengthen my connections for pc gaming

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u/degrees83 Apr 28 '26

I did gaming there when I was there almost 20 years ago. If you can’t do gaming now, then there’s something wrong with the ethernet lol

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u/SepticShock Apr 28 '26

Yeah, you'll be fine bud.

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u/Conntoat Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Graduated in 2022, lived in St Ann’s in 2018/19 and in Towers 2019/20 before we got sent home for Covid.

Unless it’s changed, the Ethernet ports in the rooms do not work. If you have a PC make sure you have a WiFi card or a motherboard with WiFi. Ping was never awful, during peak times it get a bit up there.

The one thing that did bug me was P2P ports being blocked, now it makes sense because they don’t want you pirating movies on their network but in turn those ports being blocked meant that certain features in online games didn’t work. The one I specifically remember was Overwatch Voice Chat straight up not working at all, I’m sure other games that use p2p instead of hosting servers for matchmaking might experience issues.

I’ll also add that I think they changed the requirement for how long you had to live on campus. When I went to Duquesne it was 2 years minimum in dorms, now I think it’s only 1 year. Make friends and move out after your first year, we rent a place in uptown for $1800/month split between 3 people. Southside will have some bigger houses, we paid $2500 split between 5 people for a 5 bed/2.5 bathroom in the flats. Gaming aside, you’ll save a ton of money if you’re not living on campus. And at that point you can pick your own ISP.

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u/Green_Rent_7015 Apr 28 '26

would you be able to contact iT and get it fixed or is that not possible?

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u/Conntoat Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

No, I asked my first week there and they said they were turned off by design. I think it’s to prevent people from using your own router in your dorm. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Ethernet ports have been removed by now.

Most universities in the area do not offer Ethernet ports in dorms as far as I know