Usually I experience a small lag spike every 3-5 minutes lasting a few seconds each, not something I cannot handle. But I’ve almost always had this problem in GW2, except for some time after its launch. After deciding to try GW2 out again I downloaded a fresh install a few days ago, and I was booted off the game two days in a row because of these recurring problems. Doing any instance is pretty much impossible. It is 100% not my connection, as the pinging any web page is low and stable, and latency on everything else reflect this (games, streams, video buffering, etc.. Even on the options screen in-game it also shows a low ping.). My problems are with GW2 only. I usually sit and wait until I get booted off the server, and then have to wait a few minutes before trying to log in again.
What I have noticed is that in rare instances when I do experience a high ping or even an even rarer packet loss, GW2 have a difficult time restoring the connection properly, as if it starts to stutter severely. So I have to idle for a minute while it sorts things out, or usually get booted.
I have moved around a lot, changed computers and reinstalled the game several times, so it can’t be tied to any one specific thing on my side.
As I was writing this the issues went away, but they are too frequent. My installation of GW2 is completely vanilla and I have not messed around with any internet settings.
The attached screenshot shows you my average ping towards pretty much anything.
