Is it just me or does the main seem to have been laggy for the past few days or so?
I know the server is in Texas and im Virgina so maybe its just me, but my ping seems to be fine.
Just thought i'd ask and see if others are laggy too.

I've noticed a little lag for the last couple weeks, but thought it was just me.

turn off your walls and you should be fine

Ya i am experiencing lag in some maps more than others, and some where i did not used to before. My choke is high. 5-10. although occasionally goes to 0. my firewall is down. And rarely my whole game just freezes and just comes back after 5 or 10 secs.

Good to know im not the only one...

i'm getting it too, but im not quite as far out as you are korn. im in KY. but i'm having the same problem you are, my ping is under 50 all the time, but i still get lots of choppy lag atleast once a day for about 10 min.

I dunno -- nothing really has changed -- could be the internet if it started around the 5th of the month.

Im in canadia and Ive been getting srs choke/loss / game freezing since I got back to playing last month or so, nada changed over my recovery period so Ive kind of pinned it on the route my signal takes to texas, could be the case with any of you too

That's about when it started. What changed?

I've not noticed any undue lag, but I've not been monitoring choke.

i noticed ever since the whole ginzu fake attack the server has been fucked with alot and has been conisistanly laggy/chokish at random times throughout day or night

All the DNS root servers rolled out DNSSEC. They say nothing bad has happened but there are all kinds of things that DNSSEC changes (that are good) but legacy hardware / software might not be compatible with. Specifically things like ISPs caching DNS requests are gone (I think). So increased internet congestion could be expected.

I dont know but could it be happening because of Microsoft processes? Windows defender always has real-time protection on and i use it. The odd thing is i dont get out of the ordinary lagg in left 4 dead, its mostly in css.

Yup, I experience that lag all the time in there now.

Everytime a nade blows up by me or the bomb blows up my fps drops to like 20...and I run a nice rig, and on other servers it doesn't do it nearly as bad. Maybe a 5-10 decrease for a second but not a 150+ fps drop

This happens to me, but im around 30-40 fps. maybe 60 on a good day, so when it drops, i got to about 15.

Damn that explains a lot as to why I lost my DNS connection a few days ago all night with comcast and why my internet has gotten much laggier but its been getting better.

Ugh.... DNS
I had to switch back to my ISP's horrible DNS servers because Google's DNS started having some probs. It's all good now though.

Its been doing better the past few days I think.