University connection is incredibly slow

[timmay28]

My school's internet is so slow that you only have about a 50% success rate in pulling up any webpage, otherwise it gives a "server not found" message. Well this impacts my poker playing as well. On FTP last night I was in two MTT's in which I really liked my chances of winning some good loot, but in the middle of them the connection crawled to a halt, and I blinded out right before the bubble in both.

I wrote to the university about their chitty internet but didn't receive a reply, and several other guys on campus said they too have written, no response.

I'm not sure if I have a particular question other than to ask what would you guys do at this point. My system is less than a year old, spyware free, no viruses, well taken care of. The school offers a wireless network, so maybe it might go faster if I bought one of those wireless-g usb adapters instead of using the regular cable connection? Anyway, if anyone wants to offer any ideas at all I'd love to hear them.