Guild Wars 2

A month from now I am moving to the city to a small town. My internet connection will be going from 800 kbps to 128 kbps. Does anyone know if GW2 will still be playable @ 128 kbps? Will it become plagued by lag and rubberbanding?

If not is the a satellite internet provider (in Canada) that could give me playable speeds of the internet…. or any other suggestions.

Rural Brit here, the fastest our speed has ever gone is 110 kbps and that was a one off.

Still, the game seems to play fine for the most part. I think the issue with lag stems not from your download speed but from your latency (or ‘ping’). I’m not too sure of the specifics of latency but I know satellite internet used to be infamous for latency issues in online video games where it counts (1-2 second delays on all actions).

Your best bet is to do a check on speedtest.net when you get your new connection as it should also give you a ping value. Anything below 100 is considered fine in America, in Europe you’re usually looking for 60 or less. Despite our relatively low speed we still usually get a stable ping between 40 and 60.

wow, I thought my internet connection was slow (16 Mps download 1.8Mps upload) but apperantly it’s pretty fast :o

Well I still have lagspikes or I rubberband, and WvW is still a mess, if you have a beast computer you might be able to compansate for your bad internet connection.

You might have a little problem in crowded areas. The worse case I’ve seen is around 200Kb/s in WvW.

Are you absolutely sure that’s the best you can get?

I live on the edge of a small British town but I have fibre-optic broadband, which gives me about 35Mbs. (Fibre to Exchange only, Exchange to Residence is copper)

Saskatchewan Canada. A Province that twice the size of texas has only a million people living in it. They call the 128 kbps “high speed internet”…

then you only have 2 options.
1) dont move to that place…. probably not an option
2) try and see if you can play gw2 when u get there. if you cant, then you cant.-

Rural England here, 5 miles from the nearest exchange, over (old) copper wire.
No chance of fibre optic (fttc) nearest cabinet is 4 miles away.

20Mbps wireless, so it’s worth looking at other options that might be available in your area.

You don’t need a mega fast connection for most games, but downloads and patches can take hours.