Should EQEmu be doing this?

[Zante]

I play on the "Dark Chaos Reborn Server" now under the name "Forever Hacking"

Just wanted to point out that some nasty lag spikes occur when the server(s) caters for over 14 individual users. I remember 5 years ago, when I still used dial up, running a UOX server emulator and my bandwidth being more than enough to accommodate 14 users.
I stopped playing official EQ just after velious went gold so I don't know what changes they made regarding net code.

Is current EQ really this bandwidth hungry? Or is there some other cause (like these forums running off the same line)?

I posted here because it's not really a bug and it can't contribute that much to development as the lag is already evident.