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I was trying to play a game this evening and extreme lag on the KGS client: clicking on the "Server Stats" at times yielded a lag of up to 80 seconds!

Opening up the DOS prompt and typing "ping goserver.gokgs.com", however, resulted in no loss of packets, and a response time on average of a little over 1 second. (I have satellite internet, so a little over a second is normal.) As far as I could tell, I haven't had any lag problems connecting to any web pages either. It's only trying to play a game with the client where I've been suffering the lag. I should also add that it took three or four tries to get connected to the server when I logged in.

Any idea what might be causing lag using the client, but not when pinging the server?

Having the same problem tonight. Started getting lag of >50s. This time, I figured I'd log out and log back in. Now I can't connect to KGS at all via the client, getting an error message that the server "might be down". It took me a good 10 minutes to be able to connect.

I noticed that I also couldn't connect to POP or NNTP servers, but ping and HTTP weren't having any problem.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Fedya wrote:I noticed that I also couldn't connect to POP or NNTP servers, but ping and HTTP weren't having any problem.

on the surface, it really sounds like an ISP problem