Lag, our server is laggy Options

[BULLET]

The last few days the server has been lagging alot for many people.Can this be a server issue?If someone can fix that would be great.COD2

[Druid]

I can't say this enough times.
Servers side there are only two things which would cause lag.
CPU choke
Network issues at the data center.
Neither of these are a problem.

90+ percent of the time it's going to be caused by your connection to the server.
By your connection I don't mean you but your route to the server.
Minuscule network issues that happen all the time are not even noticeable in anything but gaming because its so susceptible to small fluctuations in latency and packet loss.
As these small fluctuations grow they become noticeable as lag.

Comcast users over the last week have had all kinds of problems. Which by the way wasn't even related to comcast, it was simply the majority of them were using the same route to the data center where are servers are located. I think it was related to a hop on Level3.

There are 5 major network pipes suppling our servers.
MCI
UUNET
Savvis
Level3
Internap
When any of these network providers have a problem, a percentage of the people on the server will notice it as lag. These issue happen all the time and are out of our control. Luckily whatever is causing the problem is normally fixed rather quickly.

If there was any issue actually on our server causing lag it would be noticeable by EVERYONE on the server.
Otherwise it's network related.