Quote Originally Posted by Nuth_KM View Post
Sapience.. it may also be worth denoting the nuance between a "client issue" which some might not understand doesn't necessarily mean the customer or their pc but rather the Lotro client software that is installed on their pc.
Quote Originally Posted by ColorSpecs View Post
Can it be a client issue though if an entire raid lags out at the exact same time in the exact same way? Everyone hitches, or everyone's skills lock up or everyone just stops.

Thanks for continuing to drill down on this.
Yes. Because as Nuth points out a client issue doesn't always mean your PC, it can mean the code of the game itself, it could also mean the data is fragmented (and not just on your drive), or that the client/server handshaking (which wouldn't show up as any kind of measurable issue on the server or network side of things) is wonky.

As I've mentioned a couple of times, lag can be a tricky thing. Knowing it's not one thing doesn't mean it's not a million others. Knowing it might be a million other things doesn't mean it might not be any of them.

We do believe we're getting closer to the root cause, if only by process of elimination of what it isn't.