Guild Wars 2

Mine are incredibly slow, for Jan 30th update, I was downloading at 10kbs, I could download anything else at the same time an pull an easy 300-500kbs. I run nothing else and still only getting an average of 10kbs.

All my router ports are opened that are requested by ANet, anything else to help bump up this speed?

Jan 30 update

Start download, splash screen is up showing a download speed around 10kbs and just shows a running total of what has been downloaded. No red bar or anything like that.

It finishes at 16mbs or so roughly, drops to 0 and restarts, then shows the red download bar at 87% and downloading around 200kbs.

Anyone have any thoughts on this.

I’m getting this too lately..for example right now.. i get up to 100~ish kb/s then it drops to 0.00 kb/s..

Same. Down to last two files… dropping to 0.00. Restart, get a little speed, then drops to 0.00 again and hangs there. Usually I would blame my ISP but looks like there may be something more going on tonight.

Drops to 0.00 here too. Speedtest runs fine and I can access everything else just fine.

Same, itll get to something like 9MB downloaded and drop to 0, never had this issue before

Similar issue as those posted above. Verified problem is not on my end by running patch update for D3 (got around 400Kbps).

Had same issue yesterday. Took forever to get update. Game ran fine once patched so it looks to be an issue with the patch server.

Are we really hitting the server so hard?

EDIT: Above issue is with initial client update. Once the client is updated the rest of the files download at normal (i.e. 500+KB/sec speed for me).

After restarting several times, all through the update process, it finally completed. When it did I was getting steady 1MBps speeds. Just thought I should give an update. Good luck.

Here as well. My wife and I are seeing >1kb/s download rates, despite being able to download at 1MB+ from elsewhere.

Same issue for me. Download speeds drop down to 0kb/sec then pop back up then back to 0 for a while. Exactly the same issue as last night with the patch. Surprised no one has acknowledged it.

Thank god I know it’s not me it takes over an hour just to get the patch to download this all happened right after the huge flame & Frost update I have ran through all the checks looks at my system shut down services that where not needed made sure others were not running, then I speed tested the connection and everything was good. I fear updates now because I don’t know how long it will take to get back in the game.

ANet any advice on how to speed things up?

game files isn’t stored in one server/location, its spread out through multiple places/cdn as caches so you might be using one that is slower. Changing DNS works for some people better than others (See 3.5 & 3.13 for more info)

I can’t seem to grasp the concept that if nothing has changed on my network, computer system, setup in general, that I should be trying things to make the downloads work normally from my end.

I really hope Anet takes a look at changes made after the Jan 28th patch that may have caused some issues with their update patches that followed. Note that the original Flame and Frost update work perfectly fine. It was the additional patches that followed which had the slowdowns people are talking about.

I’ve been having these same issues over the past couple days (and I still haven’t been able to log in) currently I’ve been patching (I guess?) for the past 30 minutes and only at 2208 KB. I get “bursts” of 30kb per second at a time and then it trickles back down to 0kb/s for several seconds. This is extremely frustrating and I’m not sure I have the patience to keep dealing with it.

I’m stuck at ‘’10 files left’’.. Unless I open and close it all the time, nothing happens..