I have started getting hideous skill lag, big lag spikes and disconnects since yesterday afternoon. It started in WvW but is occurring everywhere in the game. Seemed ok earlier today but has now started again this evening and I’m struggling to stay logged in at all.
Location: South Yorkshire, UK
ISP: Sky Broadband
Server: Gunnar’s Hold
Massive lag problem in the prime time for over week now. Sometimes 5 minutes long lag, sometimes disconnect when standing in lions. Game is unplayable. Only GW2 affected.
Disconnects disconnects disconnects. Don’t have this problem with any other online game or web browsing. When I was on an overflow though I did not get a Disconnect.
Please guys, phone Sky tech support and ask this to be raised as a complaint on your account, I just have as this has been going on 45 days for me now.
There is a thread on their help forums, and so far the best response has been:
" I had spoken to one of my colleagues about a similar issue and he said that it will be down to one of the intermediary servers dropping the connections – when they get busy rather than causing everyone to slow they “lose” a few packets so the majority of users can have uninterrupted game play. At least that was his theory anyway."
It is NOT sky. I am a recent customer of sky, just switched. I was having this problem on another ISP before the switch.
It is just a coincidence at it probably the most popular ISP right now.
I know this might be a bit late but i will post it anyway.
I am also having a lot of lag issues and timeouts. I can have lag or get kicked from the game at any time on any day. It is not a constant thing but i do get it almost every day for a few hours at a time.
Getting the same error with monumental lag – we’re talking at least 30 second spikes, along with many of my friends.
One thing myself and my friend noticed whilst talking through Skype that is during these lag spikes we can talk in Guild chat and it’s instant, but talk in public then there’s nothing. This only suggests to me that their servers are not capable of handling this much traffic. This happened to me yesterday, and it was around 5.30pm UK time, everything prior to this was fine, and exactly the same today….
Had this for about a month now on and off, 1-2 sec skill lag, jump back and forth players/enemys, not fun at all.
Loc: Midlands UK
ISP: SKY BROADBAND
Server: Ruins of Surmia
Completely unacceptable now Anet, This has been going on for too long. It’s even worse today with 1-2 mins of skill lag. Chat works fine, Other Games work perfectly fine online. Nothing has been done about this at all.
Massive lag spikes. Sometimes 10 seconds long lag, sometimes disconnect. Skills flashing and I can do nothing, this is unplayable.
Also Error Code=7:11:3:191:101
In Queensdale on Desolation I have no lag and there’s a lot of people there. In Dredgehaunt Cliffs I have 4 minute lag spikes and there’s hardly anyone there.
Game unplayable this is really frustrating as I would like to enjoy Dragon Ball and/or my new thief and both are unplayable with the lag issues.
Arenanet probably havent figured out anything or havent done much to find out why this is happening.
I’m also getting massive lag spikes and disconnects all around after the dragon bash update came about.
Yesterday I was having no lag problems and I’m quite sure it’s not on my end.
Server: Gunners Hold
Location: UK/London
ISP: SKY BROADBAND
Weird how 75% with lags are Sky Broadband customers (including myself), maybe there is a problem with Sky and the Guild Wars 2 servers as there’s not many BT/Virgin customers having lags :s.
Started getting this about Sunday evening at 8:30ish BST. Lag spikes lasting one to two mins occasionally whilst doing guild missions. Played early yesterday afternoon and had maybe one or two spikes but nothing terrible. Logged on this evening and did a few pieces of the new content in lions arch (overflows) and gendarran fields with no issues. then tried to go and do my PvP daily around 9:45 BST and the massive lag spikes returned. The game is currently completely unplayable for me.
Location: Kent, UK
ISP: Sky (unsuprisingly it appears)
I will just add that I’m not having this problem in any other game or when web browsing, downloading or streaming, just in GW2.
Weird how 75% with lags are Sky Broadband customers (including myself), maybe there is a problem with Sky and the Guild Wars 2 servers as there’s not many BT/Virgin customers having lags :s.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It stands to reason. Sky is probably the largest ISP in the UK right now with their bundles. So more people, more problems.
I had this problem on BT. I then switched to sky which provided a faster more stable connection and the problem is still there. I don’t think AN should be given any excuses to not sort this out.
Same problem which Ethier.3417 and the video’s guy (It’s not the same ISP). But my character will not return to its original location and I can make about a dozen of evade before i’m expelled of the game by the 7:11:3:189:101 bug. Funny, yeah ?
Weird how 75% with lags are Sky Broadband customers (including myself), maybe there is a problem with Sky and the Guild Wars 2 servers as there’s not many BT/Virgin customers having lags :s.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. It stands to reason. Sky is probably the largest ISP in the UK right now with their bundles. So more people, more problems.
I had this problem on BT. I then switched to sky which provided a faster more stable connection and the problem is still there. I don’t think AN should be given any excuses to not sort this out.
If you look at market share for internet in the UK, Sky are still third behind BT and Virgin yet nearly every problem here is Sky so I think there’s more to it than Anet’s servers not liking Sky Broadband xD
Been getting lag spikes and chatlog issues since sunday aswell, last night i had to send mail to party members as my entire chatlog crashed for aproximately 30 mins followed by a series of about 4 disconnects afterwards and strange lags or dlays in guild or party chatlogs in between each, the lagging began at roughly 6:30pm and got steadily worse untill i gave up at roughly 9pm.
Country: UK (derbyshire)
ISP: TalkTalk (Fibre)
Server: whiteside ridge
A few other guildmates have been suffering similar issues aswell lately but none seem to have had it as bad as my issues since sunday….yet.
I’m getting these lags/desyncs, and random connection drops. So I started monitoring (using Resmon and Tcpview) my ping towards Anet servers.
First, normal ms for me is 190. I’m getting 450+ ms towards 64.25.., wich randomly drops to 270+ and then start to spike again to 450 range, explaining desyncs. Sometimes these connections randomly change or drop, that’s when I got a dc I believe. If you force close some of these connections you will get others that actually work better, but seems like the main node isn’t still working good, so it’s still crappy in general.
Various members in our guild are having lag problems for the last 4-5 days. The lag only happens after 6pm gmt. It doesn’t happen during the day and the internet isn’t affected, only gw2 is.
Game is pretty much unplayable from 6pm-10pm GMT. Appears to effect me on my homeworld more than anything (it’s okay-ish when guesting and about 50/50 chance of being okay in fractals).
N.B. Speed tests show an ping of 5ms, all other games are fine.
Location: UK
ISP: Sky Fibre (40Mbps)
Server: Gunnar’s Hold [EU]
I doubt reinstalling would help. I don’t think the problem is on our side. My room-mate is experiencing this problem, yet I am able to play perfectly fine, without even a hint of lag. Would be nice if someone from Anet could verify that they are aware of this issue, and are trying to fix it.
Potato Stick [Lion]
Muphasa’s Avenger
Gunnars Hold
Did anyone else notice the lag kick in even earlier than usual today? It did for me… This is so frustrating, and the lack of a response makes it even more so.
Anet do not know what the issue is. There tech support just blame our internet connections even tho every other game and service works perfectly for us and it is only guild wars 2 that has the issue. Now if we were to trust their tech support(ncsoft tech support) then we should all just quit and play something else as it will never get fixed because there is NO issue.
With all the threads going up right now, they are bound to atleast give us an answer. They can’t shove an increasing problem under the rug. I find it amusing that when we posted a 7:11 error in the game bug section, we almost got an imidiate answer to move over to the tech part of the forum. Yet here there’s no one to answer us…
Potato Stick [Lion]
Muphasa’s Avenger
Gunnars Hold
Unplayable between 6:30-11pm for almost a week now.
London, UK.
Get stuck in walking and falling animation loops as well as freezes followed by everything that happened in the past 30-60 seconds suddenly occuring at once.
Everything except game functions with no problems or latency.
Its been insane tonight, im disconnecting every 5 mins, although a run in Arah, opened by someone on gandara was free of the lag, as soon as I went back to LA after on AG I lagged and disconnected.
Same issue here, terrible lag spikes, intermittent disconnects.
Was attempting to have a WvW event with the Guild, unfortunately the game is completely unplayable for me, there are others in my Guild who are also affected by this. This is a serious issue that needs addressing
Location – UK
Isp – Talk Talk-Fibre
Server Underworld
Dalmore Dharn, level 80 Thief,warrior,Ranger,Elementalist.
Co-Leader and Founder of GuM, UW server.
Been having this exact problem for about a month now, unplayable lag starting around 6pm, but only on guild wars, other online games are fine, in fact several other people in my guild suffer from this problem too
