re: Official League of Legends Thread

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Like any other game on Earth, League of Legends suffers from lag. Being the biggest game on the planet, though, means LoL can actually do something about it, and is launching an ambitious plan to build its own network.

LoL developers Riot are in talks with American (and Canadian) ISPs like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon "to tackle [the] problem, cutting the distance that data for the game travels and making for smoother gameplay".

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Currently, ISPs focus primarily on moving large volumes of data in seconds or minutes, which is good for buffered applications like YouTube or Netflix but not so good for real-time games, which need to move very small amounts of data in milliseconds. On top of that, your internet connection might bounce all over the country instead of running directly to where it needs to go, which can impact your network quality and ping whether the game server is across the country or right down the street.

This is why we're in the process of creating our own direct network for League traffic and working with ISPs across the US and Canada to connect players to this network.

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