Severe Lag in Multiplayer

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I'm on a college connection that routinely gets up to 10mbps down and 2-3mbps up. I've played numerous online games, including WoW, EvE, and COD without having any issues with lag (ie around 60 ping on east coast, 120 on west coast, 200 in europe).

Whenever I connect to a game in Sins, my ping stays between 3000 and 6000. When I chat the text appears 5-10 seconds after I push enter. I lag really badly at the beginning of games, although a couple of times it has dropped down to around 100 after a few minutes.  I have tried disabling firewalls and antivirus protection, with no effect. I have tried playing other games recently without having any kind of a problem.  Has anyone else had a similar problem? Why is ironclad lagging when every other program runs fine?

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Update:

 

It now appears that the lag slowly resolves itself over a period of 15 minutes or so.  My lag started off at 6000 just in the chat window. I've been monitoring it over the last 15 minutes, and its been slowly decreasing down to 125 atm.  What could possibly be causing this? The idea of logging in and sitting for 15 minutes before playing a game is not particularly appealing...