Guild Wars 2

So I just got back to playing this game and theres a patch. Im getting really slow downloading speeds for some reason. Usually when im downloading something I get to about 1-3 MB/s but now im getting 100 KB/s when patching GW2. Anyone know why?

edit: Nevermind turns out the problem was with my internet connection

I have to say, I am having this problem too. However, in my case it is not just my internet connection, I tried patching and got a horrible speed of < 100kbps, closed the download, then took a speed test confirming I should have 2mbps. Any ideas?

Khaz.5936:

I have to say, I am having this problem too. However, in my case it is not just my internet connection, I tried patching and got a horrible speed of < 100kbps, closed the download, then took a speed test confirming I should have 2mbps. Any ideas?

Nice necro, but let us get some terminology straight here. The Guild Wars 2 client shows you speeds in xxxKB/s while speedtest.net shows you speeds in xxxmb/s. Capital ‘B’ is Bytes, while lowercase ‘b’ is bits. There are 8 bits in a Byte, so if we do some basic math we can show that 2mb/s =~= 250KB/s. Since you’re using under half of your connection speed this can be attributed to a few things.

Perhaps someone else is on your network using the bandwidth for other things, or maybe your own computer is using the rest of your ~150KB/s for downloading something else…

Another possibility is that the Guild Wars 2 servers are under stress and can’t upload the absolute maximum what you can download. No where do they state how fast they have to get the updates to you, so any speed is reasonable.

Your firewall might be slowing down the download rate by having to check all the data that goes through the Guild Wars 2 client. You might also have to open up the 3 ports Guild Wars 2 uses to get the fullest speed you can. If you search around this sub-forum, you will be able to find the ports.

Finally, you might be on a wireless connection that happens to be ultra terrible and you are not getting exactly the best signal to your router, therefore not using all the available bandwidth.

Well my usual speed is 100 Mbps and I am downloading with 11-12 MBps usually, the full game is now downloading at a maximum of 900 KBps. Is there a faster way to download the full game?