I had huge packet loss when speed was upped from 1meg to 1.5 meg, at one time it was horrendous.
Something used to hiccup round about Baguley. A nice chap on this board got the cruddy spikes sorted, but the ping was never what it was ages ago.
Manchester adds one more "hop" to most servers. Clan members down south always have one less hop, that helps pings. They always pinged better than me. Everyone and their dog go online after 5pm, and being vampires imo, they all stay up till daylight, so load wont help much.
Its true even with an 8meg connection, it wont guarantee a good ping either.
I moved to 2meg adsl, which isnt possible for everyone, but the pings a lot better.
And i wont mention that theres no cap.
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