Seems to me that the servers smp2 and utopia have been lagging a lot lately. Maybe the new player increase, or maybe just me. Either way it was taking three trys to dig a pc of dirt yesterday lol. Anyone else having issues?
its the 1.1 update. Mojang made some "improvements" to help with server lag. And this in turn.. lags down the server.
this lag issues will eventually be addressed. but be sure that the move to a larger player load was well thought and is certainly not the cause. Days before the update when the player load was widened I had absolutely no lag. Now i have the Same problem as you. Constantly remining things, killing the same mobs over and over. And I have a better connection than most. But I am certain in due time it will be fixed.