Curse

Flightmare · Jul 29, 2008, 11:14 PM // 23:14

Well you might want to explain the paper hat thingy, but cantenna's really do a great job, and they are extremely cheap.

Dark Kal · Jul 30, 2008, 07:08 AM // 07:08

The paper hat basically functions as a dish, it focuses the wifi rays in a certain direction. Simular to how a flash light focuses it's light rays forward rather than in every direction, this creates a stronger bundle of rays.

Brianna · Jul 30, 2008, 08:23 AM // 08:23

Plus when people see your router, it will be stylin' with a paper hat. Every router wants one.

I am also surprised that none of you have posted what Anti-Virus/Firewall you are using, that may be a big role in this - it could be messing with Guild Wars.

As for Wifi - I said screw it on my main computer, I bought a 50 foot cat 5/6 (forgot) cable and ran it from my room, through the hall, and into the router. It sounds funny but I don't really care - I don't look at it much and I'm moving soon anyway.

gerf · Jul 31, 2008, 01:38 PM // 13:38

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Originally Posted by Big John Thomas

Sounds very similar to what i've been experiencing for the past 3 or 4 months.I've gone through all the forum posts and believe me i've tried everything.It happens on 2 pc's and a laptop with xp cleanly installed,new router and i've even had BT out to replace the cable outside my house.Been in contact with my isp (Demon uk) and explained everything and so far they say its nothing to do with them and theres nothing they can do about it if the gaming server has issues.

Now the strange thing with me is it goes away as regular as clockwork just after midnight on a friday and comes back monday morning.If there was something wrong my end surely it would be doing it 24/7.I've asked my isp several times if they are traffic shaping or something and they have never actually said if they are or aren't.It would be interesting to see a list of GW users isp's that shows those that have regular lag issues and those that don't because i am beginning to wonder if certain isp's have issues with GW traffic.

I would agree with you there john im also with demon UK

and have noticed exactly the same issues you have mentioned there, lag spikes consistently midweek but from 11pm fri eve till 7am mon morning runs without a worry. For me it also began about 4 months ago.

I have spoken to both demon and arenanet and both claim that its not their fault. Tho im deffinatly beginning to have my suspicions now that it could be demon doing some form of traffic shaping to aid their buisness customers.

Lyndka · Jul 31, 2008, 02:28 PM // 14:28

I'm with Demon too and had a similar thing, connection would drop two or three times in a row perhaps more at weekends, tried new modems, rewired internal phone lines.

I called BT out, no fault - moaned at Demon to be told "not our fault" (by that nice Colin in New Delhi!). Eventually threatened to move my account unless the DSlam was checked at the exchange - suddenly a fault was found by BT and fixed. Now the line is giving me about 4Mb and I'm over 3km from the exchange - wow! However I still get some lag at weekends.

BUT my friend in Scotland who is also with Demon, suffers the same as you i.e. weekdays are rubbish and laggy - weekends not so bad (again despite new wiring and new modem) and has moaned at Demon and had the good folk at Anet help to no avail. The problem got noticeably worse for her during the Euro competition and the route log from the GW Diag option gave an IP that belonged to a Net TV company somewhere before Anets links.

It's worth remembering that Demon also provide the BB service for Sky TV I believe and I suspect that two things are happening...
A. their network runs out of bandwidth at certain times and tries to balance using alternative routes which are also busy
B. BT is currently upgrading their exchanges to ADSL2+ and so some lines are being shunted on to older DSLams to accomodate the change and they cant cope (hence my line zooming up to 4Mb).

Try talking to Demon again, if you have had BT out ask them to record in their logs what the engineer did (BT Wholesale can also see those logs obviating the "well its the line mate" problems) and insist that Demon request BT Wholesale to check the equipment at your exchange. They will give dire warnings of a 'call out charge' - but as BT will show, they have said your line is ok and your modem is working, the only place the fault can be is the exchange!