Hi, I play a Eve-Online (MMORPG) and noticed a thread on the game's forum that might be related to your problem.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingamebo...hreadID=645596
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Being having serious high latencies in EVE for the past few days. however my broadband speeds were good.
I got in touch with my ISP Virgin Media and explained the problem. What i heard was shocking and I will be interested to see if anyone else on Virgin ADSL has been effected.
Basically Virgin have introduced what they call a 'Developer Prioritising System' and programs that are not set for high priorities by developer will come down the line really slow to make way for more important traffic.
Virgin say that they have only introduced it recently and it is only active on ADSL. They also told me that it was upto the developers of certain programmes to set their applications priorities as high to avoid being throttled by this new system.
They say the system has only been implemented in the east of england so far but will be implemented on the rest of the network within the coming weeks.
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I'm on VM Cable myself and haven't had any issues like this, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before this rolls out on cable too.