I use a Mac.   Is there a way to combat the use of a lag machine by my opponent?

P.S.   I contantly refresh my screen to no avail.

 The only thing you can do is to make your own:

This tells you how to make a lag machine. (Works best on servers!)

1. Place down 9 dispensers next to each other.
2. Put Redstone Repeaters down behind each, then a layer of Redstone Dust behind that.
3. Connect it to a mechanism like this:

  
 
  



Where:
Log = Redstone Dust
Leaves = Redstone Repeater (each facing a different way.)
Torch = Lever

4. Fill each dispenser with as much Bottle o' Enchanting as you want.
5. Cover up the dispenser above, in front and to the sides.
6. Double flick the lever and you get a gift... LAG!

I want to COMBAT others using a lag machine onn www.chess.com.     I do not use or want others to use a lag machine when playing me on a timed game.

Sorry, there are no such things as lag machines but I found the instructions I posted previously when doing a Google search and couldn't resist.  I think they are for Minecraft.

If you have a lot of lag, don't try to play bullet.

PS The guys in the last thread were kidding you.  You played one game that had a 30 10 time limit, so that after a few moves, your opponent had more than 30 minutes left. (With that time control, a player gets 10 seconds added every time he makes a move, so if he moves in less than 10 seconds, his total remaining time will go up.)

If you look at the game with V3, you can see the time he took for every move. He played in less than 10 seconds on almost every move of the game and as a result, he had more than 32 minutes on his clock by the end of the game.  That happened because he played quickly and there was an increment, not because he had a "lag machine".

If you look at a computer analysis of that game, you lost because you blundered repeatedly.

Worry about making better moves.  Don't worry about things that don't exist.

What on Earth is a "lag machine"?

   Its like a toggle switch for gamers.

The poor guy is probably legitimately confused. Please give him a few minutes to get his head back on straight.

     This is a camel. He's....lagging behind the herd                                                           

My most recent game I had extreme lag issues which almost caused me to lose the game. TC was 5+5. My opponent resigned but if he had kept playing I think I would have lost on time even tho I was up more than a queen.

I also tested my connection speed and as I expected got excellent results.

100 packets 0 % loss

Every packet round trip was less than 1 ms, (yes one ms), I have a very fast connection. So it's not me. Either it's Chess.com or some players are using a hack that causes their opponents lag.

Here we go again...

I google 'lag machine" and google tells me find "Lag Machine at ebay. of course I google toothless granny and it tells me find toothless granny on ebay too. Wait till she hears about that!!!

This will probably get the thread locked, but while lag machines should be pretty easy to detect, they do exist and there are folks using them.  Here's half of Ebay's offering:

Packets don't travel straight between your computer and chess.com's servers. They are passed along a random chain of servers along the way.  Each little pass-along adds milliseconds to the trip. Some take only a couple. Some take much longer.

Each time there is a communication, the packet has to find its way again. It may travel a completely different route each time. 

In order to understand the path that is causing your connection to lag, you need to investigate the Traceroute function.

I just don't understand the "time cheat" accusations which are very popular on chess.com nowadays. That's all.