In recent months, I have been experiencing multiple occurrences where it seems that my connection to PotM lags terribly, with a greater than 30 second delay from when I start an action (aka, click on a chest) to when it completes (opens the chest). And then takes another 30-60 seconds to even load the inventory page of what's in the chest, for example. Others can see what I write, but there's an equally long delay from when I hit Enter to send my message and when it actually displays in my chat log. I can't inspect items, send tells in a timely fashion (though others can see what I write, it doesn't show up in my chat log), or really interact with the game at all. It seems to happen at random, where I could be logged in for hours before suddenly everything comes to a standstill and lags like mad.
Resetting my modem and router seems to help on the one time I've tried it, but the issue returns after a couple minutes, leading me to believe it's not the problem.
When running a tracert, it appears I consistently have problems with the 7th jump when trying to trace to the server. When I don't time out on it, it shows that it's ae-1-3113.ear2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.132.138]. But most of the time I run the tracert it times out.
I'm at a loss as to what to do to fix it, as I'm no network engineer. And I guarantee you that if I were to call my ISP (Comcast), they'd ask me to just restart my router, pull up a Google page, and say "well you have internet, so you're good!"
Curious if anyone else has been experiencing similar problems?