Guild Wars 2

OGDeadHead.8326:

Well, if this only happens to you and not your friend, when indeed you’re playing on the same map, connecting through the same router, and thereby, the same ISP, at least we can conclude that there’s nothing wrong with your internet connection.

Have you tried “switching seats” – changing computers with each other but logging in with your own accounts? That would be interesting to know as well, because if you would continue to lag on your friends computer, running your account, while (s)he would play on your computer, with his/her account and everything would run normal, you could exclude this being a hardware issue on your part as well.

It would then point to the fact that different accounts somehow gets different network priority.

I haven’t actually thought about that, great tip. Once he comes over I will do that immediately. Thanks for this idea

OGDeadHead.8326:

Are you on the same map when this happens? This would point to issues with some accounts – do they run some ugly form of performance throttling on specific accounts?

This has been happening across 3 maps, 1 dungeon and 2 cities for now and half that time my friend is always around here(we almost always play together). This is extremely strange, I had some tries (port forwarding, kill my http sever etc) to no avail. Oh another thing that I should point out, while I am lagging in the game, I have a ping towards google.com ( just to see whether its me ) and the ping response is usually around 30 ms.

Extreme lag for almost a week now. While I can freely chat with friends/guildies/parties, I cannot use any kind of combat skills or interact with objects. Still, everything around me seems normal, not laggy, except for the fact that I can’t do anything at all. Also, keeps getting disconnected almost constantly. Definitely not an ISP problem, nor a router issue, a friend can play next to me, on my wireless network without any kinds of problems while I practically am doomed to shout and scream in terror.