Ok, so tonight my corp and I decided to do a corp battle against some other corp about our size. Was a real good match, real close, in the end they edged out and beat us. Was a lot of fun. But after the fact, one of the other corps members sent someone in our corp a mail and accused us of cheating by using a lag switch. Not used to sore winners, but no big deal, but it does beg the question for me, what is a lag switch?

Now I my be naive, but I've never heard of a lag switch before, mainly because I don't play online shotters I guess, but I looked it up and I guess it introduces lag into the game play to give someone an advantage. Wouldn't that just disconnect you from the game server instead?

But I guess what I really am asking is do people use these often or is there a way to prevent them from effecting your gameplay?

Edit: Fixed a mistake I made.

From what I heard, a lagswitch works by temporarily delaying the uploading of data while still maintaining constant downloading of data through the router or modem. Apparently it's something you can put together in order $20 using parts from Radioshack and plugs into your console.