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[Pai Pai Master]

Stop. Posting. Off. Topic. Drop it please.

Oka5, please let us know if you have any more problems.

[little ninja]

It could have been anything, ISP's in the Uk now are traffic shaping, i.e. if alot of people are on they reduce everyones bandwith down so the servers don't get overloaded. I have DC'd when quite happily playing on my PC and checking Wiki on my laptop, then traffic shaping, if I loaded my lap up then I would dc at "peak" times. also remember aot of ISP's now have caps i.e. once you have downloaded/uploaded a certain set limit (which these days is not hard to do) then they reduce your speed down to very slow, i got shaped like this once down to 378kb speed (down from 7mb) which sucks and FFXI became very laggy.
If it keeps happeneing then it might be worth getting your connection checked with you ISP. If everything is fine there then you might want to contact SE Tech support. they are more helpfull whe you have tested everything your end i.e. with your ISP etc. and would be more inclined to help in my experience.

Now that you mention that I remember getting into a vocal war with my ISP. They said I was exceeding my bandwidth and all I was doing was playing FFXI. It was also happening in the evening when most ISP users are D/L illegal content.

Truth is the US has crappy ISP speeds compared to other countries. Our fastest speed in the U.S would be considered dial up in other countries.