I have a Question about DDOS attacks

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

And worse, all that infrastructure is pointless if the DDOS strikes someplace out of their reach. If the targets are not SE themselves, but some other place on the route between the data center and your computer, there's nothing SE can do even if they're equipped to deal with DDOS themselves.

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Based on what I've seen, this is likely the case. A week or two ago some of my friends were unable to get into the game and another had serious lag issues and kept getting disconnected. Meanwhile I had no issues. Last night the login issue hit me and it took 10+ attempts to get it. Once I did get in the game worked just fine though. Those same friends reported they had no problems whatsoever. If the attack was targeting SE's data center everyone would have problems; if it was targeting me I would have problems with everything. Since neither of those was the case it stands to reason that some router in the middle was affected.