Right to start off here. I live in South Africa...
We have one ISP, Telkom.....which most often than not is known as telscum or hellcom...
The service s beyond pathetic, its a joke. I have an ADSL service that is meant to be a 512kb line but even locally i dont get more than 80kb when im lucky...international is the biggest laugh. Any link will start at around the 70kb/s mark and work its way down to easily below 10....sometimes even 5. Now we do complain but there is nothing that gets done seeing as though they are horrendously over priced, partly owned by government who are loving there lives and dont have our concerns at heart.
To get to the topic, i try to race during the day but i get bad lag and disconnections left right and center but at night is my best chance.
I guess these problems would of been fixed as another ISP was introduced a few weeks ago but alas....I STILL LAG!