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Srry is My Trademark · Oct 02, 2007, 07:16 AM // 07:16

Hi There

After reading many posts about lag and noticing that most of those people were from australia/New Zealand i started wondering if it is actually Anet's problem. I too am experiencing lag at peak hours, but i can see no problems in other online games. So is there anything us aussies/kiwis can do to stop this lag or do we have to wait for Anet to resolve this issue? Also can we expect this lag in GW2?

Thank You

bilateralrope · Oct 02, 2007, 09:19 AM // 09:19

I am located in New Zealand, and I am currently having lag issues. My initial though was that xtra broke something because my guild leader (same city, different ISP, both route through xtra) also has lag.

Kale Ironfist · Oct 02, 2007, 09:26 AM // 09:26

I've not found any lag in recent weeks that could definitively be pinpointed at ANet. My own wireless network dropping out and my ISP (Exetel) peaking in bandwidth during peak bandwidth use hours (ironically, during off-peak hours) are large factors in my position.

immortius · Oct 02, 2007, 09:38 AM // 09:38

My ISP had a problem last week that gave me massive lag and disconnects, but usually things aren't bad. But I am in Canberra which is a pretty well connected city.

Still, 300-400ms ping is enough to make interrupting a little more challenging than probably intended.

Roshi_ikkyu · Oct 02, 2007, 10:14 AM // 10:14

yesterday I was crippled by lagg. Today not soo bad sudden spikes here and there.

But its always bad for us

Thats the way Anet likes it (LOL ok joking they do care about us...kinda)

Check the forum here for infor on how to cut down on some of the lagg

Holly Herro · Oct 02, 2007, 11:35 AM // 11:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vulkanyaz

So much lag I just stop playing sometimes, the rubber banding issues really do make me rage quit -_-

I rubber banded like twice on fort ranik on my warrior using running skills and stuff.. really REALLY bad..

iridescentfyre · Oct 02, 2007, 01:26 PM // 13:26

I'm from the US, myself... but I hang out with a lot of NZ/Australian players, and over the long-term (over the past year) I've noticed that they all have a lot of the same lag issues. Mainly with connecting to new game instances, though obviously being a third party that's the thing I see the most.

Srry is My Trademark · Oct 03, 2007, 06:51 AM // 06:51

In NZ to those who dont know, max connection speed is 3.5mb/s and max upload is 800kb/s but all other games run normally EXCEPT guildwars. Unfair it is, we can do nothing realy because its anets problem. EDIT: Mabe they should make oceania servers just for us?

Pickletron · Oct 03, 2007, 07:08 AM // 07:08

Yeah, a bit of lag on my side too.
In QLD.

Vulkanyaz · Oct 03, 2007, 08:07 AM // 08:07

I've been wanting Asia-Pacific server which us aussies and kiwis could use for some time now..

Roo Ella · Oct 03, 2007, 09:00 AM // 09:00

As I posted elsewhere Get your ISP provider to Prioritize QoS for Guild Wars
Since my ISP did this and tweaked there end
GW has been running great for us.
Oh and also don't have P2P stuff running it slows down GW communications.
Western Australia

Srry is My Trademark · Oct 04, 2007, 10:54 AM // 10:54

What is QoS anyone?

Khazad Guard · Oct 04, 2007, 11:09 AM // 11:09

I live in WA and get pretty bad lag at times. I always just think its my computer/net, but I play afew other games online and they never lag.

To stop lagging, i usually just stick to the International Districts....

immortius · Oct 04, 2007, 02:13 PM // 14:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Srry is My Trademark

What is QoS anyone?

QoS = Quality of Service. Basically it means that bandwidth is reserved for priority applications.

Angelica · Oct 04, 2007, 03:19 PM // 15:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by immortius

My ISP had a problem last week that gave me massive lag and disconnects, but usually things aren't bad. But I am in Canberra which is a pretty well connected city.

Still, 300-400ms ping is enough to make interrupting a little more challenging than probably intended.

I live in Canberra too and I'm having very bad lag at this moment (1:10 am local time), I thought updating my graphic card had fixed my problems because this afternoon I was playing with very little lag, but I was wrong. Tonight I had to log off because of extreme latency

I could not play at all.

Quote:

Originally Posted by immortius

QoS = Quality of Service. Basically it means that bandwidth is reserved for priority applications.

Yes my ISP has said that to me when I complained, but I don't believe they really did that.

I must say that PlayNC Support - GW Technical Support were very kind, patient and helpful to help me with my lag issue.