Anti-lag patrol
Well that bit of lag has been fixed. For some reason my linux network setup was seeing the router / DSL modem as my DNS server which was causing it to lag when first trying to connect. I checked the DSL information page and copied the DNS servers from it directly to my computer and now no more lag.
*makes a note to check this on Le's laptop which is having this problem as well*
*makes a note to check this on Le's laptop which is having this problem as well*