Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I just started playing gw2 again and I’ve noticed that it’s been very laggy (rubberbanding etc). I don’t think it’s my internet though because I can play other games like Dota 2 with no lag at all. I’m from the Philippines btw so i tried this program called battleping which helps you connect to NA servers and it really does take away the lag-but I’ll have to pay for the full version which is 5 dollars a month. I was just wondering if anyone else from asia/South East Asia is experiencing lag like me, and if there is any other solution than buying battleping. Also, is it illegal to use battleping? It is a 3rd party program and all and i really do not want to get banned haha
Anyway thank you to whoever can answer my questions

Carlosilf.4615:

Hi guys, I just started playing gw2 again and I’ve noticed that it’s been very laggy (rubberbanding etc). I don’t think it’s my internet though because I can play other games like Dota 2 with no lag at all. I’m from the Philippines btw so i tried this program called battleping which helps you connect to NA servers and it really does take away the lag-but I’ll have to pay for the full version which is 5 dollars a month. I was just wondering if anyone else from asia/South East Asia is experiencing lag like me, and if there is any other solution than buying battleping. Also, is it illegal to use battleping? It is a 3rd party program and all and i really do not want to get banned haha
Anyway thank you to whoever can answer my questions

If a programm like battleping helps against lag, that just means that your ISP is the source of the lag, because in the end Battleping or any Virtual Private Networks just change the routing of your traffic. So the source of the lag is somewhere on the normal route of your ISP.

And no, its not a 3rd Party programm for GW2, since it doesn’t change anything in the client, its just as if you change your Internet Service Provider

Oh okay thanks for replying! Guess I’ll have to buy battleping to get rid of the lag then

Carlosilf.4615:

Oh okay thanks for replying! Guess I’ll have to buy battleping to get rid of the lag then

Did the lag just startet recently or did you had that forever ? I know for example we had 2 times since release Problems in German with our biggest provider due to some overloaded hubs, but that took maybe 2-3 weeks until they upgraded them and after that it was good again.

Generally there is a problem with the internet since more an more people watch Movies over the Internet so that the traffic gets higher and higher and at some points some hubs simply have problems to handle all that traffikittenil they are upgraded.