Bad LAG ever since Canthan new year

I've read and done everything in this topic, my gw.dat isn't fragmented, it's 1:1, but still I'm having gigantic lag ever since last weeks Canthan New Year. I'm rubberbanding all over like mad, it's extremely annoying... Lag spikes of over 2.000ms all the time...

Anyone else have this problem?

yeah only on euro servers though, which is wierd, i have to play in american or int dists, always used to be the other way round till the fest came =/

Your lucky. I've been Err7'd about 20 odd times in the last hour. Can't play right now. Is it me, or Anet?

seems Anetty to me :S cause i have 500ms on american and int (my normal speed) whereas on euro i get 3-5k...

I'm Euro, and was playing on Ero servers at the time (generally play on US due to Guild) but my ping would jump from 50 to 3k in seconds...

I am playing over wireless which doesn't help, but this issue only started like a month or so ago. Before that I could count the number of disconnects I had on one hand.

ye.. im euro and i keep getting dc'd lately

No problems here, 47ms on Euro servers.

Yeah been getting bad pings for the last 3 or 4 days.Just tried again and i was getting like 5 to 10 second lag spikes,totally unplayable.Rest of internet seems ok,getting 20ms pings on counterstrike so it would seem its Anet but it could be routing at my ISP which is Demon.Hope it goes away soon as i'm getting withdrawal symptoms,nearly got a hammer on my router

same, keep getting err7's.

I've tried the US and INT servers yesterday, but to no avail. the lag there is just as bad. A friend of mine who was with me on some missions had the same problem... No err7's though, just lagspikes. continuously with intervals of about 10-20 seconds.

Well I actually managed to get through last night with only 1 err7, and even then I could instantly reconnect.

Forcing GW to use 1 core helped...I think.

I get 7-13k lag spikes all the time.. I didn't have any before the event. I'm playing on EU servers.

jumpy as usual here----its been that way for a while (not sure if it was the canthan new year or wintersday).........but I have noticed its been pretty bad this year.

Hi,

I play GW regularly for about 3 years and never had any problems with lag. This changed at the "Cathan New Years" event. During that weekend I was unable to map in Shing Jea Monastery, or any town in the island during peke hours, got err7 all the time. It was very frustrating but I attributed it to the massive amount of players there.
After the event I started getting the "Connecting to ArenaNet" freeze up and massive lag spikes randomly.
I have found that to fix the lag spikes I just need to restart the game and everything works fine for awhile until the next spike.
I haven't found a solution for the freeze up at "Connecting to ArenaNet" except go play in my other computer until GW decides to start up. Both computers are in the same network so the problem can only be at the ArenaNet end.

So, although very annoying I was dealing with it. But, since a couple days ago I can't map to any major City (Lions Arch, Kamadan, Kaineng Center) at the home districts (Europe, America, ..). Well, I can map but with massive lag 50k+ and end by having err7. To remove my char from this towns I have to enter with another char, map to the International district then enter with the freezed character and map out of the town.
This is very annoying.

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Hi again ,

One of my friends come up with a theory about this lag problem that I kind of agree.
The theory is that this increasing lag problem its caused by the influx of new players from Asia.
The lag issues for me started around the time the Asia districts where open to travel (January 17 I think) so, this seems a valid theory.

What you guys think?

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