i suffer from disgusting lag all the time on this server... the best way ive found to try minimize it is to much around with my maxpackets, 30 is broken, i lag heaps and there doesnt seem to be much of a change in my ping, @ 50 my ping goes down, but i still suffer from spikes as the population increases on the server. 76 is fairly stable but once the population increases its crazy + it adds about 30 ping to my standard ping which is basically 98-100 ( so i go to about 120-130 base ).
60 seems to be the magic number for me, my ping only goes up by about 10 but it becomes quite stable, not until i get to about 28-30 ppl does the lag start again ( but et was never meant for 30 ppl hencing why everyone lags with that much ).