Well, thats a simple concept yet difficult to describe. There are what I would call
two "forms" of lag in reguards to battle.net; the "Game Lag" and something else called
"Chat lag". Chat lag and Game lag have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with eachother.
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Game Lag - The actual lag during a game, causing a slowness, and sometimes a pause in
the game itself. This occurs when any one of the persons in that particular game has a
"bad" or slow connection to the internet and/or battle.net. This slowness prevents an
accurate flow of information and a quick responce, causing the game to have "micro pauses"
making the game appear slow.
An analagy of this would be trying to fillup the Pacific Ocean with your garden hose.
The hose has a very small flow of water leaving it. This small flow needs to be bigger inorder
to adequately do the job. When someone lags their "hose" isnt big enough (uaually do
do some bad connectin to the internet). Think of it like watering your yard with a hose that
has holes in it. Wont work well right? You're going to have no water pressure coming from the
front of the hose.. not enough water will come out. So you reconnect to battle.net or the
internet to usually fix this.
Chat Lag - A lag/delay while chatting on battle.net. Chat lag occurs when
two or more people are on different servers with a slow or intermitant link.
(See Battle.net Servers). Chat lag causes a delay in the sending
of your message to the general channel or person. This means, when you hit "enter" to send your
message, though it may instantly show up on your screen, it may take some time to show up on
someone else's screen who is in the same channel. It may never show up as well. There is
always some chat lag, though usually a tolarable second. Chat lag starts to become noticed
when people don't respond to you (unless they're ignoring you).
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