Guild Wars 2

Telia routing issues, same as the 2 other lag threads people are talking about this on. Try wtfast or another isp to get around it while it’s happening.

Try https://www.wtfast.com .. I had issues with Telia routing yesterday.

I’m tethering to my mobile phone to get around the bad route issue at the moment.

https://www.wtfast.com/ is another option to get around the issue.

The thing is, they should have monitoring software that monitors the state of all of their upstream links. So they either know about it already, or they don’t monitor the link or don’t monitor it properly.

I have lag issues too. 1700ms ping and so on.

I did a ping/packetloss traceroute to the IP address of the GW server, and it appears that their Telia upstream link (Telia is one of ncsoft’s upstream providers) is having terrible packet loss and high ping issues. Usually a data center has multiple upstream links to the internet, which is why only some people are experiencing the issue. If you’re unfortunate enough that your ISP has preferred upstream whose upstream has a preferred upstream whose upstream goes via that telia link to NCSoft, you’re out of luck until anet fix it, or anet get telia to fix it (depending on whose fault it is).

This isn’t the first time this has happened, if you google Telia and GW2 (or even just Telia and lag) you will find this has frequently happened for GW2, LoL, WoW, HearthStone, etc for years. And yes, it’s something anet can fix – by getting rid of Telia as one of their upstream providers, or properly fixing the issue (depending on the cause of the broken link).