Quote Originally Posted by Sephirah View Post
Hopefully SE can get this all sorted out, but in the meantime, now you know there are other steps that can be taken to help improve things, if you choose to willingly ignore those steps on the grounds of "you shouldn't have to", then that is fine too.
I get what you're saying - and it's true that in some cases the problem will be largely ISP, client configuration or hardware related. However, given the number of complaints and my own personal attempts to diagnose the issue I'm certain that this is not the larger issue.

For example, I can tell you that over the 6 hours I measured I've averaged 121ms latency to Lamia with 19 spikes over 200ms, the highest (for a returned packet) of which was 457ms sustained for one measurement interval (one second). The highest average latency over any 5 minute period was 127ms and the highest recorded packet loss over any 5 minute period was 0.03%.

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