Guild Wars 2

I have recently decided to come back to the gw2 (woo)

However I am having serious issues with downloading the game!

I have fiber optic broadband and it is working fine, everything running and downloading really fast! I uninstalled and downloaded a couple of games through steam to check the download speed was going as it should be.

However when I try to download guild wars it fluctuates from 1kbps to 2 or 3 mbps, up and down like crazy!

also the client will randomly come up with the message connection errors detected and freeze on that message, forcing me to quit the client and reopen it. it downloaded a bit more and same thing happens.

I have opened all ports gw2 recommend, disabled firewalls and antivirus, everything I can think of.

any advice?

I have same problem

What have you tried to solve it?

It looks like I will eventually be able to play the game its just going to take forever to download it like this!

Reset WI-FI, turn off/on pc, scan with antivirus, disable firewall, nothing works

A lot of players have the same problem.

It takes a very long time and ArenaNet did not provide a manual download or repaired error. A very low care about the players.

I fixed it for me. If I leave the client open and not minimized it downloads super fast. The second I minimize it,open another program or put a window in front of it, it stops downloading all together or the speed plummets. I cannot explain that.

jeffacake.1850:

I fixed it for me. If I leave the client open and not minimized it downloads super fast. The second I minimize it,open another program or put a window in front of it, it stops downloading all together or the speed plummets. I cannot explain that.

Nope, this don’t work on my pc.

Same here. Half the time its at full speed. It then drops really fast to <20KBs and stays there for some time and then rises again.
At the same time I pretty much have the same problem with the forum. Very inconsistent accessibility.

editing C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file and adding
174.35.56.164 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com
at the bottom worked for me

BloodCold.5631:

editing C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file and adding
174.35.56.164 assetcdn.101.arenanetworks.com
at the bottom worked for me

Won’t let me edit it – what do i select I’ve tried WordPad but then it won’t save in the ect file