lag problems

the lag wasnt really bad until like 2 days ago, but now the chat lag and just plain general lag has gotten much worse. anyone know why this is happening or if its just me then what i can do to fix it?
EDIT
actually i seem to constantly be getting the internal exception: java.net.socketexception: software caused connnection abort: recv failed
this is getting really annoying and id like to play, but i cant. help anyone?

maybe its because of that fact that we have 75 people playing at a time

the last time i got on like 2 minutes ago we had like 7 or 19 people on, it still had INCREDIBLE lag.

:O thats the player cap it was fine with 60-69 players. But the server is like a jack in the box that changes everytime you log on, LAGSTOOOORMM. Then its fine just the way everybody else deals. Try not to log off then on again it lags it even more and one of the reasons possible for your lag is your distance to the server host (Germany) and how fast the host's internet upload speed is

i said something about fixing the what was then some minor lag spikes a couple of days ago but now its horrible and it needs fixed

Well, theres always a possibility that someone has made a hack so they lagg the server.... some people consider it fun... I could check if such a hack or glitch exists. But it's not much of a change.

EDIT: Hmmm, NVM couldn't find anything... That's good and well, bad. If there was a trainer we could just find a simple fix on the internet and apply it . Oh well, bad karma I quess...

~StodgY