Quote Originally Posted by JP_ View Post
I think they said that it was a hardware fault on one of the main switches that caused the lag and they could do nothing about it at the time because the switch was really expensive and not one that is readily available in abundance so they had no spare. But i mean thats a freak thing. Year before there were no network problems that i was aware of.
Yup, this. They had three or four switches handling the network, and one borked out just after the LAN opened. For whatever reason, there was no way to replace it at the time.