Quote Originally Posted by Sajuuk View Post
The only thing latency/network related mentioned here is ping time, and only one number is given. 1200. While certainly terrible compared to our standards, F9thret didn't provide a "standard" reference number, so I don't know how it compares to past performance.

He mentions "No lag, frame rates, running better," there are more facets to performance than simply network speed. Hard drive seek times, RAM speed, video card specs and settings. Since he changed nothing deliberately, then something else changed on his system. It's plausible to think it was the optimization, if it happened to have ran during that time, or shortly before. I'm unsure.

But it's a more plausible explanation than "A blogging site said wow was losing 300k subscribers a month, maybe that's why."
Fair enough.