Guild Wars 2

Agreed, I’d prefer RNG and cash shop stay as separate as possible. I want to play an actual videogame, not a casino “game.”

I tried xedeus’s suggestion of unistalling Pando Media Booster, and that seemed to work for about a week during Dragon Bash. I even got all the way through Ascalonian Catacombs Story mode. Then on Friday night 6/21/13 the lag and DC’s came back, and I can’t even survive a fight with a veteran mob in the open world.

I opened a support ticket and tried one of the Support page’s go-to solutions of connecting my PC directly to my modem by an Ethernet wire. I played a few hours this way and noticed I no longer had the lag or disconnection issues, even when in WvW. I also tried playing while connected via WiFi with my PC in the same room as the modem, and again had no connection issues. Normally my PC is in a different room than the modem and connected through wifi, and that’s when I have the problems I mentioned in my first post. I made a few pingplotter sample sets under these different conditions and the “in other room” sample does look somewhat different than the other two. I doubt this provides a be-all end-all solution, but maybe it sheds a little light on the problem. Unfortunately I can’t permanently put my PC near the modem, so I’m stuck with these problems for the time being. Hopefully this post is helpful, or at least informative.

I only started playing GW2 around the end of April, but I didn’t experience problems until either Wednesday 5/8/13 or Thurs. 5/9/13. I’ve been having lag issues throughout the game and disconnections with the 7:11:3:190:101 error message. The lag is more severe in WvW and dungeons, but I even see it out in the main world, usually when I engage in combat with a mob. The disconnections are sporadic. Sometimes they happen every 5 to 10 minutes, sometimes I don’t have any d/c’s for 1 to 2 hours.

Location: Akron, Ohio, USA
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