good bye FFXIV, thanks to the lag, you lost another customer.

[Amberion]

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That would be true if you could still play using the speed of a modem.

But from what people say with their ISP throttling their speed, that is not so. Or are they throttling something else that wreak havoc on their ping?

[ElHeggunte]

That would be true if you could still play using the speed of a modem.

But from what people say with their ISP throttling their speed, that is not so. Or are they throttling something else that wreak havoc on their ping?

In the grand scheme of things your speed is less important than your bandwidth. You can only go as fast as the slowest connection along your path and each node can only accept so many incoming connections before it starts to get overloaded. Connection problems are usually caused by overloaded or capped nodes because there simply isn't enough bandwidth to handle all of the packets. Sometimes it happens because the equipment is outdated and sometimes it happens because the company in control of the equipment purposefully limits connections (in other words, throttling).

Service providers throttling connections is its own kind of monster. Logically they would do it to make sure everyone gets a slice of the connection pie (so you don't have a few people hogging all of the bandwidth), but often times you have them limiting connections in a thinly veiled attempt to get customers to pay them more money for "better" service even though there's plenty to go around otherwise. That's part of why Net Neutrality is so important.