Quote Originally Posted by Amiantos View Post
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It has little do with Internet speeds.
It has pretty much everything to do with distance and routes. Convince SE to put some Servers in Australia and watch the problem vanish.
I have a line speed of 100/40 mbps (Yay pre-liberal NBN), and i still get spiky latency to the servers, the most likely cause of this is bad routing between myself and the server.

People like you just need to understand that you DO NOT have a direct, one piece line from your PC to the Server. You're bouncing your signal through dozens if not hundreds of nodes to get the server. And if any one of those nodes buggers up for any reason whatsoever, congrats on your lag spike.