Asia region internet disruption

Menzoberranzan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Australia

Celestial Order

Hey fellas, just wondering if the Wintersday hat give-out could be extended a bit further into January to accommodate those in Asia?

As many of you may have read online, an undersea earthquake near Taiwan basically knocked out the data cable allowing us in Asia access to the net and mainly GW.

I'm playing from Malaysia so I can tell you most assuredly that we're completely cut off from GW. We hear the estimated time of repairing the cables is a few weeks or so. I think Australia, Singapore, India, and any other countries using the Taiwan cable are out.

Only way I can even log on to msn.com or this webpage is through a temporary proxy some dude set up.

What a time for an earthquake...

Cacheelma

Cacheelma

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Ascalon Union

Me/Mo

....A few weeks!?

I'm in Thailand and for some reasons I can browse this forum today, but not many other websites (and no GW). I've read about the Taiwan cable earlier this morning but......I didn't think it would take THAT long to fix the stuff...

Awwww.....what to do, what to do.

Avarre

Avarre

Bubblegum Patrol

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore Armed Forces

Singapore still has connection, but it's very slow and I've been erroring out quite alot, as well as having trouble accessing a number of sites.

M1h4iL

M1h4iL

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Apr 2005

Perth, Australia

Ah so is this to blame for my 30,000 ping and 1fps performance in GW for no reason? Oh well at least CS:S works.

LONGA

LONGA

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Thailand

Agot

N/

Thats explain why I got very slow connection for playing Internet.

Xethrion

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Ka Tet of Gilead

Me/W

I've still got connection to GWO/Guru/Wiki, and had connection to GW itself for a few hours earlier, but it seems to have petered out and I'm currently unable to log in (err=058)

Located in sg btw.

shinslw

shinslw

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

TLK

Rt/R

I am in Singapore, and I am having some very slow connection here(due to the incident), and ocassionally disconnection. (Singapore is in asia for some who don't know)

Hope that arenanet can look into the situation to extend the event afew days longer for asian players here(if the situation shld drag beyond). Hope that everything will be up soon.

Menzoberranzan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Australia

Celestial Order

Earlier today I kept getting Error 058's as well.

Right now a few hours later I am able to get into the Character selection screen after some waiting but actually entering the game? However the loading to get into an ingame area is taking forever.

evilways

evilways

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2006

Singapore

yup...my charater seems retarted (take bout 5 sec to exe my commands) n drunk (keeps spinning) n death by "err 7 / 58" always

S'pore guys what r u using Singnet or Starhub

Starhub here... even my web browsing was affected...

Thallandor

Thallandor

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Singapore

Seers of Serpents [SoS]

R/

In Singapore, currently the internet traffic seems to be rerouted and stable at the moment but was experiencing terrible lag upwards of 10-30k ping rates making the game unplayable at times on both 27th and 28th nights.

Some normality seems to have been restored and hopefully well enough to log in and participate during the main event itself on the 1st Jan.

Zaganher Deathbane

Zaganher Deathbane

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2006

Las Vegas

N/

I'm in Philippines and I can connect to GW but it lags a lot. The local online gaming here are just fine. Hoping they can fix this fast

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

there are tons of lags everywhere in GW right now.....not sure why, I am in the usa and had ping times of 10,000ms.....yeah, unplayable.

ignis

ignis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Norway

Rus Corp

Mo/

lol. watch the entire GW economy collapse as chinese farmers can no longer do what they're best at

Kit Engel

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Lords of the Sacred Chao

E/Me

Singapore here. My ping earlier just hit a lovely 132114 ms. Awesome!

But yeah, connection right now in some parts of Asia is very iffy, at best. >_<

Don Zardeone

Don Zardeone

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

Makes ya wonder whose idea it was to put the cable there huh?

Blackhawk

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Zardeone
Makes ya wonder whose idea it was to put the cable there huh?
Probably someone who thought floating it on top was a pretty dumb idea.

Lord Mendes

Lord Mendes

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Derka-Derka Land

Steel Phoenix (StP)

E/

Guildwars is unplayable at the moment.
<--- Currently in Asia.

Coruskane

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

The Amazon Basin

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackhawk
Probably someone who thought floating it on top was a pretty dumb idea.
ROFLMAO!!! so true...

Menzoberranzan

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2005

Australia

Celestial Order

Heh lol

Malaysia is still more or less incapacitated. I can get as far as Character log in but places like Kamadan seem to enjoy "loading 0 files" and error 7-ing as soon as the game commences.

No new news from our ISP here since the 27th.

Pah!

Jason Xll

Jason Xll

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2005

Ice Tooth Cave

W/Mo

I doubt Anet will postpone the finale, I mean they have already been generous with the new Hat NPC and making the avatars appear 9 times every 3 hours meaning the event will last over a day. I guess you can ask a trusted friend overseas to log in for you and get u a hat

mlandry

mlandry

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by cosyfiep
there are tons of lags everywhere in GW right now.....not sure why, I am in the usa and had ping times of 10,000ms.....yeah, unplayable.
it's not everywhere because I played GW most of the day while downloading some movies with BT and just BT usually uses most of my connection; had no problems while playing (except that my character started doing 360's without stopping... well at least it didn't affect the game itself =p

broodijzer

broodijzer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

void

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackhawk
Probably someone who thought floating it on top was a pretty dumb idea.
XD, you win this thread!