Guild Wars 2

Like the title says, I went and killed Jorlag for the second time during wintersday, except this time when I got the loot, xp and chest, my achievement counter didn’t update.

The worst part is that I was stuck with 2.5k ping for the entire fight. And no, it wasn’t just me. Other people were complaining about insane ping spikes as well. I don’t believe that this is coincidence, as the same thing happened when the Mordrem invasion was going on, as well as it happening with “<area> event dailies” (although to a lesser extent).

I’ve been able to play with a 300 ping average on most any MMO, as I’m in rural Australia, so I put up and shut up. This is different. Since the game went F2P and with HoT coming out, my latency has shot up to 500+ ping average. This makes the game nigh on unplayable, and it’s really aggravating me that there’s nothing I can do about it. I’ve invested so much time and money into this game, and it’s seemingly all for nothing.

One thing that I guess they won’t admit is that their megaservers are tuned to permit WAY too much ppl. What is causing this massive lag is that the ip route they are using is either too busy or broken. If they set down the max number of players on a megaserver, this would work, but it would create the feeling that the game is empty.

Also try to do a tracert on cmd.exe prompt. Get the Frostgorge (or any laggy) map ip by typing /ip in-game, then open the cmd.exe and type this:

tracert x.×.×.x (the ip you got)

This will show if your route is clean to Arenanet servers or not. Mine is always showing that a route server is missing between Miami and Arenanet (i’m in Brazil, btw), which is causing massive lags sometimes too.

jeezlaweez.6810:

Also try to do a tracert on cmd.exe prompt. Get the Frostgorge (or any laggy) map ip by typing /ip in-game, then open the cmd.exe and type this:

tracert x.×.×.x (the ip you got)

This will show if your route is clean to Arenanet servers or not. Mine is always showing that a route server is missing between Miami and Arenanet (i’m in Brazil, btw), which is causing massive lags sometimes too.

All good and dandy, but what do I do with the information now I have it?

jeezlaweez.6810:

One thing that I guess they won’t admit is that their megaservers are tuned to permit WAY too much ppl. What is causing this massive lag is that the ip route they are using is either too busy or broken. If they set down the max number of players on a megaserver, this would work, but it would create the feeling that the game is empty.

I feel that this is the root of all the issues I’ve been having with latency. Any other MMO I’ve been just fine with my normal 300 ping. But then again those companies tend to be more open and communicative with their community too.

Miss Lana Too.5794:

All good and dandy, but what do I do with the information now I have it?

Send it to ANet, so they can work on troubleshooting. It’s not clear from your post whether this is a problem on ANet’s side, how the data gets routed after it leaves Australia|US, ISP bandwidth in Australia, etc etc

Another alternative: I have friends in Australia who started using WTFast (which reroutes some of the traffic via their own servers) and swears by it. One of them said, “I finished Sanctum Sprint for the first time!”

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Miss Lana Too.5794:

All good and dandy, but what do I do with the information now I have it?

Send it to ANet, so they can work on troubleshooting. It’s not clear from your post whether this is a problem on ANet’s side, how the data gets routed after it leaves Australia|US, ISP bandwidth in Australia, etc etc

Another alternative: I have friends in Australia who started using WTFast (which reroutes some of the traffic via their own servers) and swears by it. One of them said, “I finished Sanctum Sprint for the first time!”

Finishing Sanctum Sprint??? You’ve convinced me!