ISP Problems for WoW?
Widespread Outages for World of Warcraft
Hmm... interesting. As an avid player of WoW, I haven't noticed any such thing. As a matter of fact, I have never experienced crippling internet-related lag while playing any server, except for the occasional loot-lag. (Which I haven't had for a very, very long time.)
Right now, everything seems okay. All realms are up. No special notice on the log in screen... I wonder when this happened... (yes, I'm extremely skeptical... the forum link they provided no longer works)
Personally, I've always noticed how everyone is so darned critical of Blizzard and their server operation. Computers have problem, man... especially when under the distributed load of 6 million people!! They keep adding new servers to lessen the load... but there's only so much you can do so quickly.
Whenever I even start whining about lag like the omnipresent fanbase of complainers... I stop and remember Star Wars: Galaxies... the first MMO I paid for. Servers were always going down at random times, for random durations, with absolutely no warning. I have seriously only experienced one or two random reboots in World of Warcraft... sure, it's a bit inconvenient, and people might be in the middle of doing some gigantic instance, but, hey, guess what... you'll live.
I think people are spoiled by Blizzard, and when something outside their control happens, everyone explodes and starts thinking they know how to run things. They expect Server Maintenence on Tuesday mornings (does anyone else have a designated server downtime so people can plan around it?) but when servers crash like any computer eventually does under strain, it's suddenly the end of the world and people are ready to stop paying. Talk about fair-weather fans... good riddence to you, I say.
Anyway, if the above article is true, that would be very interesting indeed... It would seem that Blizzard isn't so totally "responsible" for problems after all. (Nah, who am I kidding, the forum kiddies will find some way to blame them about using AT&T in the first place.)