Marishi is a bit overconfident in his/her own analysis. I have already gone over many of the aspects of why it isn't client side in several different topics. Traceroute is clean, ISP says I'm straight and never throttled, no issues outside of this game etc. While it's true that what I said is a bold claim (about jobless people claiming to be network admins,) it is also true for the most part. People make pretty crazy claims about themselves to bolster their arguments online, job related lies being a very common one. Your own quick defense of using Google as a means to becoming a "network guru" seems to support my claim. Cogent is not the issue; 200ms of lag =/= 5+ seconds and losing several packets =/= a timed out connection.