Originally Posted by
Drip
It's possible. I suspect it has to do with how the signals (packets) route between the server and the player. For some players, the signal will need to pass less "stations" (called Hops) along the way, while for other players the routing may go through some "bottlenecks", or even get throttled on some stations (there are international agreements about network throttling, but not every ISP is following those to the letter). I never really investigated how the traffic from Nutaku servers to my place runs, but I bet there are some bottlenecks along the way.