Quote Originally Posted by Alxa View Post
If folks post some more trace routes that will show if it's all going through a common point. My connection and Allizar's are getting to Japan via different servers (different ISP's have different routes to Japan). I would assume the game goes the same route. If the disconnect is because of a DOS or something it should affect trace route as well. And why did this suddenly happen to a bunch of us at the same time today.
Its not just different ISPs, if you trace again you will get different routes because the internet is a packet switched network, ie packets of data take different routes based on the state of links etc, about the only circuit switched network around now is the phone network, because they need data to arrive in the right order, whereas actual data can arrive at differant times and be held onto to until the previous ones arrive.

So packet 1 might go through the 200.3.5.0 network on the 3rd hop, but packet 2 could go through the 170.20.0.0 network.