Guild Wars 2

Every time I hit certain game servers with this IP the lag becomes unplayable;
when i go in an instance the lag becomes unplayable, but when i exit the map it’s all fine.

Specifically these IPs (mostly tested on personal story instances)
Bad IPs: 64.25.33.42, 64.25.33.74, 64.25.33.70, 64.25.33.65, 64.25.38.66, 64.25.38.147
Good IPs: 64.25.38.161

I really don’t think it’s on my end as when the IP changes it’s fine.

TL;DR Anet has network congestion problems with some game servers
type /ip in the chat bar to see which game server IP you belong to

http://youtu.be/_iy0qCxGR7Q

At the start of the video i am in a personal story instance, everything was lagging out bad, then i exit and everything was fine.

This is a good find. Have you found any workarounds for this?

My bad server-ips: 206.127.146.50:0, 206.127.146.43:0

My internet connection is fine, just gw2 has some lag around 3 seconds or more today.

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This is a good find. Have you found any workarounds for this?

It does not always happen, just at certain times and not even every day. when i posted this, it was happening and i spent around an hour going in and out of instances.

I think it’s merely a network congestion problem. I didn’t find a workaround yet. Maybe if there was some way to make the game drop you into a new IP (or reroll for a new one) than the one you previously used, but i don’t know of any method that does this.

I’ve had the same issue for months now, it only affects certain characters and only at peak times. From what other people on this board have come up with it’s to do with a routing issue somewhere in eastern US. The problem stops a few of my characters logging in entirely if they are sat in a busy area, and they will often eventually lag out with error 7 codes even in quiet spots. The rest of my characters are fine, no lag, load within seconds and never get disconnect.

The only way I’ve found that gets around it 100% of the time is to use a US VPN so that it doesn’t route through this problem area. I’ve had this same issue in both GW1 and GW2 now, no other games, and I’ve had several different ISP’s in this time. I don’t think it’s directly an ANET issue but I would love to know why it only affects certain characters, and if different races/professions etc are designated different IP’s to connect to upon character creation.