Curse

take_me · Jul 04, 2007, 05:53 PM // 17:53

It all got worse for me. A LOT WORSE.
I had lags between 1000ms-5000ms some days ago until yesterday.

But now they are between 90 and 120 SECONDS.

Hengis · Jul 04, 2007, 06:15 PM // 18:15

The game is totally unplayable at the moment.

Massive lag spikes and crazy ping times.

Possibly the worst I have ever seen it.

DarthCz · Jul 04, 2007, 06:18 PM // 18:18

one week of lagging, one more week and ending with this game
gg anet

Kinn · Jul 04, 2007, 06:48 PM // 18:48

Gah, this is super frustrating for me, because I moved house over the weekend, and last Thursday was the last time I played GW in my old house (performance was good as ever)

Now I've set up everything in my new house, my ping has been (red engineing) appalling ever since Sunday when I started playing again.

Up until reading this forum I had put it down to the change in environment. Now I'm not so sure >_<.

Edit: Forget to mention I'm in England

Edit2: Ok, just tested international district-1 (the only non-euro district I get it seems) It's giving me a consistent 300-400ms, with occasionally <250ms, which isn't great but is a ton better than the 5,000ms spikes I am getting every ten seconds on the english servers.

Shame the only people I am likely to meet in international-1 are bots and ebay customers collecting their hard earned gold

Yarly · Jul 04, 2007, 07:00 PM // 19:00

And its started all over again just now, just as a hero battle tournament opens for registration. Hmm, coincidence?

m440 · Jul 04, 2007, 08:01 PM // 20:01

Dear Anet.

Its still possible to log in. Fix it please.

Threepwood · Jul 04, 2007, 08:53 PM // 20:53

Hm, never had any issues, untill today...

Max lag of 3.700 ms and even some maps wouldn't load (sometimes it all hangs on 'Connecting', while other times it gets stuck at 100% ). Didn't had that problem before.

My location: Belgium
Uploadspeed: 1 Mbit

TyrianFury · Jul 04, 2007, 09:14 PM // 21:14

Five days later and as with a lot of people I'm still having really bad lag. Missions are unplayable for the most part, but it does seem better late in the evening (11pm gmt). Had one ping that was 21 000 that is insane, generaly pings range from 71 - 3000, not ideal for an online-multiplayer game.

I hope this gets corrected soon.

sorcees · Jul 05, 2007, 07:33 AM // 07:33

my ping ball doesn't turn red but i also have massive lag, my character stops walking for a sec and then i find him somewhere else 5 seconds later. Plz fix this lag this is really unplayable. Anet i just got my summer holidays. so fix it.

I am playing on: European servers
Location: Holland

Plz tell me when you think this will be over.
edit: yeah now i also got pings of 6000+

zway · Jul 05, 2007, 07:50 AM // 07:50

omg whats the problem anet!!!!!! why is this happening i'm getting 2000+ ping as well. for god sakes fix this problem, does gaile know about thisssss, im sure she does.

Hyper.nl · Jul 05, 2007, 09:48 AM // 09:48

I've had no lag at all, but when playing at European English servers in Presearing I often heard complaints of big lag from my team mate. For some reason, the lag did not affect me at all.

I'm connected via XS4ALL internet, The Netherlands.

Flightmare · Jul 05, 2007, 09:49 AM // 09:49

Whew, finally I've read all posts.
My friend had some bad lag last week, and when his was mostly over, mine started yesterday. Both dutch. More friends allso had bad lag but they said they fixed it by adding 3 DNS-adresses in their network device. He gave me the 3 DNS-adresses: ns1.servermatrix.com, nic.arpa.org and vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net, he said it fixed most of his lag by using those, and one of his friends didn't notice much difference.
Well hes not very skilled with windows so I'm asking here, has anyone else heard about those 3 adresses, can anyone confirm the story?

Hengis · Jul 05, 2007, 10:11 AM // 10:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flightmare

Whew, finally I've read all posts.
My friend had some bad lag last week, and when his was mostly over, mine started yesterday. Both dutch. More friends allso had bad lag but they said they fixed it by adding 3 DNS-adresses in their network device. He gave me the 3 DNS-adresses: ns1.servermatrix.com, nic.arpa.org and vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net, he said it fixed most of his lag by using those, and one of his friends didn't notice much difference.
Well hes not very skilled with windows so I'm asking here, has anyone else heard about those 3 adresses, can anyone confirm the story?

This seems to be a very unlikely way to fix it to me.

DNS (Domain Name Servers) translate domain names to IP addresses. When you type www.google.co.uk into your browser and hit send, a query goes off to the DNS server which translates the name into an IP address, in this case 64.233.183.103. Your connection is then established to the IP address.

When you are playing Guild Wars, there should not be any DNS translation involved, as the game client connects directly to the IP address of the server.

Anyway, I really hope this is fixed by the weekend. Roller Beetle racing with massive pings and lag spikes will be no fun at all.

Flightmare · Jul 05, 2007, 10:23 AM // 10:23

Yeah that was what I was thinking aswell, but he said it fixed his lag so I thought I'll better ask if someone had heard of this aswell...
The adresses seem to belong to webhosts :S

Nexus--Star · Jul 05, 2007, 12:32 PM // 12:32

I also still have a bad lag all the time since last week when the fraction bonus started.
Sometimes GW freezing over 10 seconds and i find my party dead after it.
My internet works fine so that is not the source.

Location: Holland

Hope it´s fixed soon

Grtz Nexus

makosi · Jul 05, 2007, 12:54 PM // 12:54

Still got it in Euro districts but not in International. Slow loading, red PING, jumpy lag.

Any news on a resolution?

Angelic Upstart · Jul 05, 2007, 01:25 PM // 13:25

This is unacceptable, for six days now i have had massive lag spikes and huge pings upto 22,000.
Constantly freezing and delays using skills and loading areas, this is not what i consider a quality service.
What the hell is going on, Anet must have some idea, even if it is outside thier control, they surely must have the reason for it.
FFS sort it out.

Pyrea · Jul 05, 2007, 01:35 PM // 13:35

I've noticed that the lag is very very bad during the day (I'm based in London UK) but in the evening everything returns to normal. It seems that something is eating up all the bandwidth during the day hence the lag... I hope this is resolved soon?

Tabitha Gladrielle · Jul 05, 2007, 01:51 PM // 13:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyrea

I've noticed that the lag is very very bad during the day (I'm based in London UK) but in the evening everything returns to normal. It seems that something is eating up all the bandwidth during the day hence the lag... I hope this is resolved soon?

For me it's the other way round, ok during the day but starting from 6 in the evening it gets nearly unplayable (Germany here)

alchohol · Jul 05, 2007, 01:56 PM // 13:56

It's so bad I'm unable to play. I'm in Northern Ireland.

Wonder if Fury will have these problems...I hope not.