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Ziv · Sep 06, 2010, 04:03 AM // 04:03

When I'm standing in the middle of nowhere inside an instance, my ping is about 188~210ms. This is also what I get from tracert.

Code:

Tracing route to 64.25.39.85 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.227.1
  3   105 ms   103 ms   103 ms  l1-rb1.fai.acsalaska.net [209.193.63.166]
  4   109 ms   104 ms   103 ms  vlan121-cr3.fai.acsalaska.net [209.193.13.137]
  5   102 ms   103 ms   103 ms  ae1-0-r1.fai.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.145]
  6   118 ms   119 ms   119 ms  so-3-1-1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.209]
  7   141 ms   151 ms   144 ms  so-2-1-0-0-r1.sea.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.194]
  8   143 ms   351 ms   144 ms  gi2-1-4018-gsr1.sea.acsalaska.net [69.161.21.110]
  9   151 ms   151 ms   144 ms  ge-6-3.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.71.156.5]
 10   158 ms   159 ms   143 ms  ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.68.105.62]
 11   174 ms   175 ms   184 ms  ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.54]
 12   183 ms   175 ms   184 ms  ae-1-100.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.37]
 13   191 ms   199 ms   199 ms  ae-2-2.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.106]
 14     *      191 ms   184 ms  ae-32-80.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.132]
 15   191 ms   191 ms   192 ms  4.59.197.26
 16   191 ms   191 ms   191 ms  64.25.32.10
 17   190 ms   192 ms   191 ms  64.25.32.26
 18   191 ms   191 ms   191 ms  64.25.32.62
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *     ^C

Tracing route to 64.25.39.85 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
  2     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.227.1
  3   106 ms   103 ms   103 ms  l1-rb1.fai.acsalaska.net [209.193.63.166]
  4   101 ms   103 ms   103 ms  vlan121-cr3.fai.acsalaska.net [209.193.13.137]
  5   102 ms   103 ms   103 ms  ae1-0-r1.fai.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.145]
  6   117 ms   119 ms   119 ms  so-3-1-1-0-r1.nwc.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.209]
  7   149 ms   144 ms   143 ms  so-2-1-0-0-r1.sea.acsalaska.net [69.162.207.194]
  8   142 ms   151 ms   144 ms  gi2-1-4018-gsr1.sea.acsalaska.net [69.161.21.110]
  9   150 ms   143 ms   151 ms  ge-6-3.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.71.156.5]
 10   149 ms   151 ms   160 ms  ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.68.105.62]
 11   191 ms   176 ms   183 ms  ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.54]
 12   174 ms   175 ms   175 ms  ae-1-100.ebr1.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.37]
 13   195 ms   195 ms   200 ms  ae-2-2.ebr2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.132.106]
 14   191 ms   183 ms   191 ms  ae-32-80.car2.Dallas1.Level3.net [4.69.145.132]
 15   190 ms   199 ms   191 ms  4.59.197.26
 16   190 ms   191 ms   192 ms  64.25.32.10
 17   191 ms   192 ms   191 ms  64.25.32.26
 18   190 ms   191 ms   191 ms  64.25.32.62
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *     ^C

But when I'm in town with other players, or fighting monsters, my ping jumps up to 350-400ms!

What's going on? Why am I lagging so much more just from being around other things? And yes, I have installed the Leatrix Latency Fix.

cheape arie · Sep 06, 2010, 05:12 AM // 05:12

I have always been playing around 300ms.. I thougth it was normal

.
But sorry, I cannot help you with this

Lord Dagon · Sep 06, 2010, 05:44 AM // 05:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by cheape arie

I have always been playing around 300ms.. I thougth it was normal

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But sorry, I cannot help you with this

same here my ping is always that.. i dont think ive ever seen a green ping on my screen before.
and yea cant help, besides telling you to live with it like everyone else

nos two · Sep 06, 2010, 06:25 AM // 06:25

your in Alaska bro. its your isp. document the times you spike like 3pm or 10pm is the usual around my way. when kids get off school and when the mall closes around here.

Ziv · Sep 06, 2010, 09:09 AM // 09:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by nos two

your in Alaska bro. its your isp. document the times you spike like 3pm or 10pm is the usual around my way. when kids get off school and when the mall closes around here.

My ping doesn't "spike". Either I'm alone without any monsters around and my ping is ~200ms, or I'm near other monsters/players and my ping is 300~400ms. I've tried it at all hours of the day and it's the same. In fact, the two screenshots I included were taken within 5 minutes of each other.

Pinkest One · Sep 06, 2010, 03:10 PM // 15:10

Where theres no data packets being transferred(i.e standing still,alone) ofcourse the ping is going to be lower than when monsters are getting nuked,loot assigned,people running in 8 different directions. Its normal.
If you're asking why its that much of a difference,many others and myself will tell you its your ISP. 300~400ms isnt that bad anyways. Thats normal for me.

Ziv · Sep 07, 2010, 03:28 AM // 03:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinkest One

Where theres no data packets being transferred(i.e standing still,alone) ofcourse the ping is going to be lower than when monsters are getting nuked,loot assigned,people running in 8 different directions. Its normal.
If you're asking why its that much of a difference,many others and myself will tell you its your ISP. 300~400ms isnt that bad anyways. Thats normal for me.

So would that be an issue of bandwidth or quality of service?

Lord Sojar · Sep 07, 2010, 06:57 AM // 06:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ziv

So would that be an issue of bandwidth or quality of service?

QoS, not bandwidth. Guild Wars uses tiny amounts of bandwidth.

This could be due to packet loss, either at your house switch, or one of the many many hops going to Guild Wars.

Those last hops seem to be the bad cookies. You might want to contact ANET about it and see if they can investigate those issues on your behalf. Sometimes they can assist in resolving the issues.

hattara · Nov 05, 2010, 10:37 PM // 22:37

For the past few days I've been having connection issues with GW as well. Suddenly GW will just hang, and not even realize I've disconnected. I ran a tracert, and the problems start around hop 20, the same IP as yours - 64.25.32.62 times out.

Oh, and I'm in Finland. So definitely somewhere further up the chain than our ISPs.

fowlero · Nov 06, 2010, 12:37 PM // 12:37

Keep seeing the title of this and thinking it says "Ping goes up when i'm aroused".

How long has this been going on for? Most latency issues just go away after a while due to issues in some random node.

Smarty · Nov 06, 2010, 02:38 PM // 14:38

Out of curiosity, do you find your ping is even worse when there's AoE fire and/or minions involved? I've been having this problem for at least a year. Back when I did AB a lot it was really noticeable. As soon as I got near a shrine - boom, lagspike.

SpyderArachnid · Nov 06, 2010, 07:06 PM // 19:06

You gotta also remember, sitting in an instance compared to a town is going to be extremely different from each other.

When sitting in an instance, the mobs are the same each time, same skins, no changes to anything. So it doesn't have to load something new every time you enter.

Where is, sitting in town you are seeing all the players with their own dye colors, armor combinations, what they are doing, and as well, any holidays going on. A Town is always changing over and over with players leaving and entering, so the game has to load all the content constantly whenever you are in a town.

One person enters the town while you are there, you have to load that persons skin, face, hair, colors, armor combinations, dye colors, costumes, etc etc. It has to do that for every person in the same district as you. Alot of loading compared to an instance which will always be the same and never change.

So yes, your ping will always be higher in town than in an instance.