Same here, and also that makes no sense whatsoever because there are 3 times as many mpeople on east hence it laggs/realms down people WAY more than west does. I bet the douchbag who made this thread has a pentium 2 or some crappy 56k connection and thats why he is bitching and whining.
I started the thread and I may not have a super uber gaming rig, but it's more than enough to run D2. I have an Athlon XP 2600, Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600, 1GB of DDR2100 RAM on a 3Mbps cable connection (tested for throughput and latency).
I did start an east char and found out it lagged a bit more than in west. It HAS to be the times I play. It wasn't just me, a lot of people were complaining everytime I experienced the lag and also crap like not being able to join a game or create a game. That happened twice over the weekend. I hopped in the chat channels and everyone was whining.
Never, EVER in this thread did I whine or bitch. It was a simple question.