Guild Wars 2

Me and a german guildmate have been experiencing very bad latency playing on Tarnished Coast (NA) for the last few weeks.

After tracing it it seems there is a hop at Paris (preceeding the big hop to Washington) that is adding a full 150ms to our ping rate by itself. The connection is part of the backbone network as far as I can tell, and not something my ISp is responsible for.

In situations like this what can you do about it? – I can’t play GW2 properly under these circumstances, but phoning my ISP won’t change anything either

We (well some of us) have the same issue but going in the other direction. There is a sort of solution but not a terribly great one and there is a price tag attached.

Setup a tunnel connection to another computer which is using a different ISP and therefore a different route. Redirect GW2 traffic over the tunnel. It is not necessary to redirect all GW2 traffic, just the game data. The connection for authentication can be left alone and probably should be. This is fairly easily done with putty(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) which handles the tunnel creation and proxy and proxifier() which handles redirecting GW2 traffic to the proxy/tunnel created by putty. A VPN would probably work as well.

Edit: interesting … looks like ANet doesn’t like proxifier

Unfortunately your options are limited to either talk to your ISP, go to a different ISP (not always an option) or use a tunneling service which might have monthly fees.

The one I know is battleping, http://www.battleping.com/ , that seems to have servers in germany, but it’ll cost you some money ($5.45 a month or $14.95 for three months), reading their website they have a free trial that will disconnect you every 20 minutes but will let you see how does it work, and they do list GW2 as a supported game.