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Dev121 · Jul 10, 2007, 07:12 PM // 19:12

Ive been playing 100% lag free.

Im in the UK thou if that matters but my mate in southern UK has had very bad lag (stopped him playing , dont know if this has anything to do with it but well no lag for me

).

Neo Nugget · Jul 10, 2007, 07:17 PM // 19:17

Boy im sure happy to be back at 32 pings

Was at 1000+ at festival.

Edit: Im having horrible rubberbanding but my ping is very low. When i rubberband my ping goes up to 32,000 :O

Qual · Jul 10, 2007, 07:22 PM // 19:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by assassin_of_ni

lol i hope that was sarcasm =/

edit: i like the original wording better lol made it sound more sophisticated =P

Not everyone is english here...

BTW. I didn't lag this weekend. but plz plz ask about the AB weekend. The lag was crazy there...

lennymon · Jul 10, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27

I must be one of the lucky one's living in Seattle and all...
MY guildies in Colorado have been hovering at an average ping of around 2000-6000 since friday however (which by the way makes vanquishing 'interesting').

bwillcox · Jul 10, 2007, 07:37 PM // 19:37

I live in Austin, TX and had almost never experienced lag before this weekend. At times on Sunday it was almost unplayable. Monday was usually better, but still the lag was much worse than ever in the past. Also, probably 5 or 6 times I was dropped when switching regions (going in/out of portals, etc.).

lacasner · Jul 10, 2007, 08:48 PM // 20:48

I'm having lag often, but it may be just because of comcast and the wet summertime floridian weather.

Losttoapathy · Jul 10, 2007, 09:01 PM // 21:01

I have noticed a significant improvement since the weekend with regards to the lag/latency issue. My ping is between 50-300 which is very manageable. UK (Euro) server, by the way.
I still have small lag spikes in a somewhat sporadic fashion when I enter some explorable areas, generally in places where there are lots of monsters. (And Mind Freeze has actually frozen my computer on occasion, lol.) However I am almost sure that this is an unrelated problem as this has been going on for quite some time.

Tachyon · Jul 10, 2007, 09:13 PM // 21:13

See my post in t'other thread.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...2&postcount=18

Aera Lure · Jul 10, 2007, 09:38 PM // 21:38

Need a poll asking about lag in the US region too, since lag is most certainly not limited to Frankfurt.

Anyway, I hope whatever troubles they are experiencing there get sorted out.

salamanca · Jul 10, 2007, 10:03 PM // 22:03

I was actually out of town from wednesday afternoon until Sunday about 9:30pm.

I was hittin ghuge lag Sunday night but assumed it had to do with a crowd in Shing jea and the explorables for the quests. The celestial gathering was a nightmare of rubberbanding for me (not helped by the spamming of insults in chat by those taking things way too seriously)

Today, I was in presear for a spell and had some streaks of red ping but it was not effecting the game.

I honestly assumed it was a local issue tied to the heat wave.

Dallcingi · Jul 11, 2007, 12:41 AM // 00:41

Umm... I am playing in America. This morning had no lag and now that I just got home and started my normal farming... the lag was very unplayable, pings in the 1000's, and it is not my computer because it plays other games like cs and wc3 tft fine over the internet.

And my guildies from Poland and Europe are experiencing lag like me as well...

Jaythen Tyradel · Jul 11, 2007, 12:52 AM // 00:52

I use the low end (768k) Verizon DSL.
I have rarely had any issue with Lag.
Recently before the event, during the event, and still now I am facing lag spikes.
Most the time it is playable with a few times stopping everything altogether.

pumpkin pie · Jul 11, 2007, 01:51 AM // 01:51

er sorry, I voted to number 3 without reading that its not for people who uses the german data center. you can minus my vote from there please. thanks and sorry for the trouble.

so when is Anet going to solve problem of lags on other server? i have them all the time!

Funk · Jul 11, 2007, 01:52 AM // 01:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by bwillcox

I live in Austin, TX and had almost never experienced lag before this weekend. At times on Sunday it was almost unplayable. Monday was usually better, but still the lag was much worse than ever in the past.

2 things: First - many, many people switched from EU-servers to US- or ID-servers (ID-servers are also located in TX, as far as I can see) and consumed alot of power. Second - the dragonfestival had many participants, many people were online and therefore the servers had very high load and high traffic.

As for the poll - it got alot better! Afaik, they disconnected the direct route to a very big carrier (Telekom) in Frankfurt which solved the problem. Now the traffic gets carried over L3- and Telefonica-backbones. Most of the people from England for example got routet over L3 anyways, so they had no big problems. Most germans get naturally routed over the Telekom-lines (it's the biggest ISP/carrier in .de) and this also explains why some had big issues and some not at all. For the german people: Note, you might have slightly worse pings than before all this lag-trouble occured, but that's simple because in fact the route over Telekom *was* the best/shortest route before the shit hit the fan. Now your packets have to travel a bit longer, maybe. Anyways, that should be in ranges way under 100ms additional latency, so if you had ~80ms before all the issue and have ~130ms now, that's "normal" until they get the troubles finally fixed. At least no 30.000ms delays anymore. Thx

-F

Hyper.nl · Jul 11, 2007, 06:52 AM // 06:52

During the last weekend with dragon festival, playing was not possible for me at the European servers. I had huge pings from 500 to way over 1000. I spent the weekend in the international districts where it was still playable with pings of around 300.

The situation is improved now. The ping indicator no longer turns to red but is orange most of the time. Pings are still higher as normal, where the indicator is green usually.

I'm located in the Netherlands and connected via XS4ALL Internet BV via the KPN (Royal Dutch Telecom) network.

So, in short: Yes, it improved a lot since the last weekend, but it's not back to usual yet.

Cormac · Jul 11, 2007, 11:00 AM // 11:00

from friday to sunday i was unable to play with the lag with my ping staying up at around 6000 but monday i was able to play all day with no lag at all with my ping being back to normal at 150

the_jos · Jul 11, 2007, 11:27 AM // 11:27

Played a lot lately, not experiencing more lag than usual.
I know some guildies experience heavy lag.
I'm located in The Netherlands, connecting through Orange (previously Wanadoo) DSL network.

Caith-Avar · Jul 11, 2007, 11:45 AM // 11:45

I've had pings of 450-2000 averagely for some days now, frequently spiking up to 20.000-80.000 (you know how that feels)...
just yesterday... suddenly... 40-140 ping... sometimes "spiking" up to 220-250 or maybe, rarely, 280... which I consider normal and well-playable. Hope it stays that way.

tmakinen · Jul 11, 2007, 11:45 AM // 11:45

Didn't see any serious lag during the weekend, but last night (Tuesday) the game was completely unplayable with constant freezing for 2-10 seconds at a time, several disconnects and general lagginess. Not something you'd want to experience when soloing in HM

(The lag was not that evident in the outposts but unbearable in the explorables).

This on European districts (accessing from Finland), but once I hopped to ID1 and did some quests with a friend the lag appeared to be almost completely gone.

Marth Reynolds · Jul 11, 2007, 11:56 AM // 11:56

I normally hadn't lag myself in gw aside from when my providers is acting up :P

now i get game freezes wich last for 10 seconds and up, i certainly know it isn't my laptop (Since it can play sword beta smooth without any lag) so i know it's a server side problem.. or a problem with routing.

For some of my guildies/guild wars friends the lag is unbearable, they were not even able to pick up a present that dropped at their feet and lay there for a minute...