So in short: I’ve been getting sigular 2-3 second lag spikes and disconnects in past 1-2 months and it’s hard for me to blame ISP due to constantly swapping between 2 different internet providers (by the way, both connections are wired – not wifi).
Longer version, for why I think at least some of those lags are on ANET’s side:
I’ve been playing the game for a few years and until late last year I got maybe…. 10-15 lags spikes and dcs in total.
In last 2 months month alone I got about 8 disconnects and at least 1 lag spike every day. I don’t want to blame ANET for this completely(because until recently I could see those disconnects affecting other programs, like youtube or online radios), but most disconnects are too suspicious to blame ISPs.
For instance: 3 or 4 of those diconnects were after pvp ready check (after match making, before transfering into pvp map, when map vote should show up). There were no build up lag spikes before those diconnects.
In recent matches I played with options menu open (to see my ping). It was ~50 without lags then it would hit 2-3k (average would go ~100-120) and AFTER the lag spike it would shortly go back to ~50. It’s just hard for me to believe that ISP can have 2-3 seconds of 100% packet loss and then go back to 0%
The reason I decided to report today is: I was in wvw squad today of 40-50 (large squad but small opposition, so no skill lag was present) and in 1 hour I’ve seen about 20 people either disconnect or randomly exit the game (without quitting squad) – some during fights, some while running. I myself got 3 lag spikes and got finished of by a disconnect.
I’ve seen people complain about lags and DCs pretty much since HoT got released, but I haven’t seen this kind of massive disconnect streaks before.
