Guild Wars 2

Since about noon-ish CET today, I have found the game to be unplayable. It is a public holiday in Germany, so maybe internet traffic is high.

I use Pingplotter to check in game IPs, and all the packet loss is behind Arenanet’s connection to the internet (as far as I can tell).

I am with Duetsche Telekom.

Pings are variable, 200-2000 for the past 3 hours or so.

I have tried the “-clientport” command line with 80, 443 or removing it altogether. No difference that I can discern.

WvW portals into towers, for example, are just horrible, because I stand there for 3-5 minutes before I get inside.

I am getting the Code=7:11:3:191:101 error, telling me to wait and try again in a few minutes.

So why is Arenanet’s ISP or connection so bad?

I can do anything else other than GW2 without any issues. it is only this game that has the problem.

Happy to consider any reasonable advice, and interested to hear from anyone at Arenanet that can speak about the stability (or lack thereof) of the game/connection to the internet at Arenanet’s end.

EDIT to add: The/my problem seems to be only in the Mist War. Edge of the Mists does not have the problem. Maybe because it is rather empty after the re-linking.

Second EDIT: Seems to be only in EBG that I have this problem. Other border seems to be fine. The EBG instance is 206:127:159:152 if it matters.

So it’s Sunday again, 1 week later. Same problem. No issues Wednesday – Saturday. EBG is unplayable and the other 3 home borders seem to be fine (so far, but it is only 9:30am).

IP for EBG is 206.127.159.92 and pings are over 1000
IP for SFR home BL is 206.127.159.123 and pings are approx 30
IP for GH home BL is 206.127.146.64 and pings are approx 30
IP for DL home BL is 206.127.146.31 and pings are approx 30

I know that overnight Saturday -> Sunday EBG activity was very high. Most keeps and towers were reset from tier 3 to tier 1 throughout the map. Do you guys have memory leaks in EBG? Or are EBG servers somehow weakened by the heavy load on Saturday nights?

Please investigate.