NEED OFFICIAL RESPONSE - LAG/CONNECTION PROBLEMS

[Xaimera]

Why do all the people having issues with lag blame SE. It's not their problem, if it was every player would be suffering lag. I never have any lag issues whatsoever, I'm based in the UK and play on a NA server. The quality of the data passed between SE servers and yourselves is the responsibility of your ISP. Your ISP will tell you its SE's problem because they are not going to admit they have a crappy service. If Amazon sent you out a parcel and it took 15 days to arrive who would you blame, it wouldn't be Amazon, it would be the delivery service.

Well w/e it is I hope it will go away. I don't know but I'm sure it's not my ISP because I bought a new router not too long ago.
And my signal is only messed up when it needs to travel to Japan's SE servers it seems.
Also I live in Canada so my internet isn't bad lol.
In fact this company that I have internet coverage is by far the best I've seen in this region, waaaay better than the other 2 companies lol.
I tried resetting my router over and over this morning but the ISP I guess still is messing up trying to travel to Japan.

[worldofneil]

I don't know but I'm sure it's not my ISP because I bought a new router not too long ago.

Your router is only responsible for your initial connection to your Internet provider (wherever they are based). So whenever you do something on the Internet your router sends the traffic to your Internet provider and they then point it on to the destination, but essentially your router is only responsible for that initial bit of your connection, it literally routed the traffic (to the ISP).

And my signal is only messed up when it needs to travel to Japan's SE servers it seems. Also I live in Canada so my internet isn't bad lol.

Your Internet connection is only as good as all the hops it has to pass through to get to the destination server. So even if you have a super fast connection that is stable/reliable most of the time, if to get to the destination server your traffic is trying to go through networks that lose/delay them then that in turn has a knock-on effect for you, either slowing it down, or making it unreliable or both.

If you're going from Canada to Japan it might actually be sending you round the long way (via Europe!) although you'd hope not, it's entirely possible that the connection going round that way is more reliable so the ISP routes you that way instead of the shorter direction (via Alaska and Russia?). You'd have to run a traceroute when you're having problems to see which way for sure.