Quote Originally Posted by Amberion View Post
Isn't the new update rate only in newer dungeons? Also, did not a whole new set of players get lag after that?

Have to wonder how older games functioned on 24.4k modems and what new things games send back and forth that they didn't before.
The new polling rate was initially for new dungeons, but SE has since applied it to all instances.

There's also nothing to "wonder" about. It has less to do with the games and more to do with internet infrastructure. When 24.4k was the norm you didn't have the internet in every household, nor did the people who had it use it as often as they do now. The number of new internet customers increases daily, but depending on the area and the provider the demand for bandwidth can increase much faster than the "supply" side can update their equipment to accommodate the load. It's the same reason why you might not lag at 4am, but trying to play the same game at 8pm is almost impossible. There's only so much bandwidth to go around so if your ISP (or any backbone for that matter) is poorly equipped to meet demand you're going to experience problems if they're routing a large amount of traffic.