Quote Originally Posted by Vektrat View Post
So you just read a Wikipedia article and suddenly promote up to the top of networking gurus...

However, I'm sorry to tell you, you are as wrong as you could be.
  1. There IS throttling issues by ISP (I don't know why you're assuming only one problem can exist, maybe you don't have this issue, but many people is suffering from that - fortunately not me)
  2. The biggest problems at the moment are from game design (from, mostly, a networking point of view)
  3. Server congestion will deteriorate quality of service, yes, this is probably happening right now, could be, but I doubt so, and if it is happening, it is heavily eclipsed by the other issues
I never claimed to be any sort of guru, I'm actually just pointing out the most obvious reason to an issue. SE says their servers are congested and that is why people can't log on. What is another side effect of congestion? Lag.