Severe Lag

MrBrodd · October 2010

Recently I seem to be lagging very severely. I never lagged in my old house, but for some reason, I lag in my new home. I can only play in the morning and at late hours around 11:00+
The lag starts to come in by 2 p.m. and continues till night. It's really getting me mad because I can only play in the morning and at night. Well, only at night when I have school days >_>

CyberCatUK · October 2010

This could very well be due to a cap on your internet connection during peek times and/or due to more people in the area using the internet at the same time.

In some areas, ISPs have a limited bandwidth they can supply to a particular area. The more people that are using the internet in that area, the less each user will have allocated to them, to share the connection.
I don't mean sharing the connection which goes to your house but to the whole area in general.
You may have moved into an area which has alot of people using the internet during those laggy times but which hasn't been allocated enough bandwidth to cope with the demand.
My ISP limits our connection between around 6pm to 11pm.

I believe it is also more common to have problems with bandwidth on DSL connections rather than cable broadband.

Try running test at http://www.speedtest.net during various times of the day.

CookieMunzta · October 2010

Could be the land line quality aswell.

CyberCatUK · October 2010

Yes it could be but if the land line was a problem, I would expect it to be laggy all the time not just between set times.

CookieMunzta · October 2010

Not necessarily. Like the Internet has peak times, as do phonelines. For example in England, we have BT, whose older landlines limits internet between 4pm and 12am.

CyberCatUK · October 2010

That makes sense for DSL connections, old copper wiring not designed to cope with the huge amount of traffic these days

I haven't used a BT for along time. I've used Virgin Media Cable (previously NTL/Diamond Cable) for years and with that we still get capped at certain times.

CookieMunzta · October 2010

CyberCatUK wrote: »

That makes sense for DSL connections, old copper wiring not designed to cope with the huge amount of traffic these days

I haven't used a BT for along time. I've used Virgin Media Cable (previously NTL/Diamond Cable) for years and with that we still get capped at certain times.

Yeah that's what they used to use, we had some at our previous house, terrible quality when you're using Broadband $:\$

BT Fibreoptic is the way forward :rolleyes:

MrBrodd · October 2010

So how can I fix this?

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