Guild Wars 2

Hello All

I am thinking of returning to the game but I had to move my computer out the spare room. The way my router was installed and current location I have no choice what so ever but to play my PC with a wireless connection.

I bought a USB Wireless Adapter, Supports up to 150 Mbps, My Broadband is 100Mbps unlimited connection. I am currently at work atm so I haven’t tried this yet.

Is there anyone tried this or even running this?

I imagine the game would run fine running around the world but I am worred it will lagout like crazy in PvP or Dungeons

I play via my wifi connection and have no problems. I’ve never had problems in dungeons or during events with a lot of players. I don’t PvP though so I can’t attest to that.

Wireless gaming is really not recommended, although it may work fine for you. There is the potential for RF interference by other devices that share the same operating frequency, which might lead to dropped packets and increased latency.

However, you could give it a try and it might work fine.

Thanks for replying Trogdor and Abomally. I will give it a try anyways, Hope it works out.

I play on a laptop with wireless connection, and have very few issues. I PvE and have not done any dungeons or PvP.

I switch houses fairly often and use a 150Mbps tp-link wi-fi usb stick while I’m not at my normal house. It works perfectly fine as long as the signal strength is good. When the signal is weak it struggles as expected. Powerline adapters rock when wi-fi just wont cut it.

Keep in mind that much of your internet connection performance will be based on who ELSE is sharing the wireless connection and how crowded the particular WiFi bands (channels) are in your location (not GW2 or GW2 server performance).

Even if your signal strength is good, there is only so much bandwidth available on WiFi frequencies (even if your network is fully secure and free from other users). Note that if you have congestion on your particular channel(s), your connection will still show connection at a high speed and with a good signal, but it will still be degraded (and there is nothing you can do short of moving the network to a less congested set of channels….and there are only 3 to chose from on an 802.11N network).

If you have to be on wifi then get a good card with an external antena those wifi dongle are junk. A friend of mine was having issues with his wifi connection he was using one of those dongles and every time someone walked across the room he would lose connection. We went to Microcenter, got a card with antena on a 3 foot cable. We were able to place the antena on top of his PC and get full staigth signal with no loss in connection ever. Antena and location is everything when it comes to RF signal.