Guild Wars 2

The game is pretty much unplayable for me, but my friends don’t seem to have any issues, but our traceroute shows totally different routes to the server where we play (EU-Desolation).

Here’s my route that seems to be broken (500+ ms is pretty common):

5 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms tuk2-tr1.dnaip.fi [62.78.107.57]
6 14 ms 15 ms 13 ms ae5.stk30.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.67.197]
7 * 226 ms 222 ms ae5.fra61.ip4.tinet.net [141.136.107.218]
8 231 ms 238 ms 232 ms cdnetworks-gw.ip4.tinet.net [77.67.71.122]
9 216 ms * 225 ms 206-127-157-94.plaync.com [206.127.157.94]
10 230 ms 207 ms * 206-127-157-102.plaync.com [206.127.157.102]

Here’s a route that does not have that many issues (50 ms is playable):

8 ae2.helpa-gw1.fi.elisa.net (139.97.6.250) 16.730 ms 12.478 ms 12.318 ms
9 ae1-10.bbr1.hel2.fi.eunetip.net (213.192.191.53) 11.594 ms 13.405 ms 14.387 ms
10 so6-0-0-0.bbr1.sto4.se.eunetip.net (213.192.184.86) 24.330 ms 20.941 ms 24.494 ms
11 ae1-103.stk10.ip4.tinet.net (141.136.97.153) 19.778 ms 20.998 ms 29.810 ms
12 xe-8-1-0.fra23.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.181.225) 51.695 ms 51.349 ms 51.192 ms
13 89.149.164.42 (89.149.164.42) 51.143 ms 60.436 ms 51.145 ms
14 206-127-157-86.plaync.com (206.127.157.86) 49.401 ms 49.885 ms 50.651 ms
15 206-127-157-102.plaync.com (206.127.157.102) 54.846 ms 50.403 ms 52.056 ms

If you create a VPN connection to some other network and play through the VPN tunnel, everything works fine if the VPN where you connected to does not then travel through the same tinet.net machines.

I think it’s more likely that some tinet.net servers (ae5.fra61.ip4.tinet.net? cdnetworks-gw.ip4.tinet.net?) are causing the whole issue, not PlayNC servers or different ISPs that we’re using. Of course, it would be nice if NCSoft could politely ask tinet.net to sort it all out, if it’s really them that’s causing the whole mess.

Lags (rubberbanding and warping) and disconnects back to character selection screen here too. Usually everything starts working fine after I’ve disconnected a dozen times or so, but before that the game is totally unplayable. I cannot interact with anything or activate my skills.

Server: Europe – Desolation
Country: Finland
ISP: DNA