this may seem stupid but im beginning to believe that meter stutters, stops, light speed meter are built into the game. may sound silly but just look at peoples comments, can play fine and then bam they increase in fruequency. i dont have a ton of problems with it but do experience some. im sure peoples systems and the workload of wgt's servers is an issue too but i just think that is a smokescreen. wgt throws it out to cover the fact that they have a glitch or imperfect system or that it is in fact a built in challenge of the game.