Serious server problems.

Gwmaster

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Canada/Quebec

N/

ok first im not the only one experiencing this, all my alliance is getting disconected..stuck..we have like 30k ping..my friends in friend list are also getting errors 7...what the hell is going on? i asked around towns...and people are also experiencing this..

AKB48

AKB48

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2008

みやき町

Mo/A

Dunno, hope Anet's client serve doesn't get "hacked" again.

wilebill

wilebill

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

Mt Vernon, Ohio

Band of the Hawk

W/Mo

Same here. Really severe lag and finally a DC.

Lyynyyrd

Lyynyyrd

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2008

Aussie Trolling Crew - Spah!

Employees of the server hosting location are having a hot wild orgy, putting outward pressure (as in, pressure pulling away from the proper connections) on the connective wires, thus reducing connectivity and causing lag.

obsidian ectoplasm

obsidian ectoplasm

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

Im getting it as well. its really pissing me off

SerenitySilverstar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

A lag problem may not be server side - remember there is hundreds, thousands, possibly tens of thousands of miles of fibre optic/copper wire/cable between your house and the Anet servers. And along with that there are ISP hubs, nodes in and out of cities/countries.

It may well be - like has happened in the past - an international node that is having troubles.

Molock

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2006

Qu??bec

Legacy of Angels [Halo]

E/

This is actually a serious problem.. thousands of players basically can't play....

Edit: Adding location! Canada - Quebec

Xunlai Guru Agent

Xunlai Guru Agent

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Same here, and I been getting it for quite sometime now...

Kusandaa

Kusandaa

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

N/Mo

Getting it too. Had a few 20k lagspikes, my team is getting lag too. It's been pretty frustrating these days...

Location: Montreal, Quebec. Lag isn't as bad right now, but still, I hear my team saying they have.

I pwnd U

I pwnd U

God of Spammers

Join Date: Oct 2005

in the middle of a burning cornfield...

Scars Meadows [SMS] (Officer)

Hmmm I don't have bad lag atm... Might help if we knew where everyone was located. I am in the Midwest US.

Calista Blackblood

Calista Blackblood

Permanently Banned

Join Date: Oct 2007

Northern Ireland

Nowhere To Run Nowhere To [Hide]

N/

UK no probs here yet other than not being able to connect earlier "transaction in process" (or something).Pings still reasonable in american districts

Siirius Black

Siirius Black

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Dragon's Lair

La Legion Del Dragon

E/

Weird lag spikes. One moment have like 6 fps with a high ping, a few minutes later 29 fps. Its been going like that for a while.

Midsouth of the US

Kerwyn Nasilan

Kerwyn Nasilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2007

WHERE DO YOU THINK

W/

My ping has been fine

illidan009

illidan009

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2008

Volterra, Italy

A/

Mine are fine as well. i only logged on for 20 minutes today so I guess it's not a very good sample.

Kazamafury

Kazamafury

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Mo/

My ping spikes as well. Glad to see I am not the only one. Hope this gets fix soon. Been happening for a few days now.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

E/

i've been seeing it in pvp now adays

Konig Des Todes

Konig Des Todes

Ooo, pretty flower

Join Date: Jan 2008

Citadel of the Decayed

The Archivists' Sanctum [Lore]

N/

I was getting it, but I seem to be all good now. -shrug- Last 5 days was killer for me, but yesterday and today no problems.

HawkofStorms

HawkofStorms

Hall Hero

Join Date: Aug 2005

E/

I haven't gotten any lag reccent. A few disconnects today which is kinda unusual, but lag's been fine.

Minako Sawai

Minako Sawai

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2008

A/

There was some problem earlier today as large numbers of people were all kicked off at the same time, at least in Pre where I was. Those few that didn't get kicked off said almost everyone just suddenly stopped moving and then disappeared. Don't know if it was just one server or what, but that would seem to be a problem on ArenaNet's end for once. I really think most lag is not their fault but somewhere along the line as I've been lag and disconnect free (until today's kick) since June.

Hopefully just a glitch or somebody pulling the wrong plug.

Edit:

Correction: I wasn't really kicked off, just lost connection for a few minutes and then was able to reconnect with no problem. Others mentioned they had to log back in.

Antares Ascending

Antares Ascending

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2008

E/

Gotta say, this is getting old!!
I was on having the same problems earlier and figured ok, can't get much done so I'd do some simple farming on Budek Byway. Its a quick run and easy enough....3 tries, with an average of 3+ discons or yer dead! lags per run. Its a wopping 10 minute run!!.

Here's hoping tonight I can actually play the game.

Ant

Shadowhaze

Shadowhaze

Nothing, tra la la?

Join Date: Oct 2007

Yeah, same here. Get lag, then dc with 007 error. Getting very annoyoing. Hard to do anything.

StormDragonZ

StormDragonZ

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

New York

W/R

While attempting to beat Dune Teardrinker and Master Hoff of Polymock battles, I got disconnected twice in each battle about a minute into it.

Didn't happen at all for these last few days around the exact same time and area (Asura side of EotN).

Fallen Royalty

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2008

R/Rt

Quote:
Originally Posted by SerenitySilverstar View Post
A lag problem may not be server side - remember there is hundreds, thousands, possibly tens of thousands of miles of fibre optic/copper wire/cable between your house and the Anet servers. And along with that there are ISP hubs, nodes in and out of cities/countries.

It may well be - like has happened in the past - an international node that is having troubles.
I lol'd.

The world is ~18,000 miles around. Even if I was on the equator, with an ArenaNet server right next to me, but had my computer hooked up to a cable that went aaaaalll the way around the equator to the server next to me, it still wouldn't be "tens of thousands of miles" (which implies at least 20,000 or more).

Geography ftw.

BulletStopper

BulletStopper

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Staring At my computer

Knights an Heroes

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fallen Royalty View Post
I lol'd.

The world is ~18,000 miles around. Even if I was on the equator, with an ArenaNet server right next to me, but had my computer hooked up to a cable that went aaaaalll the way around the equator to the server next to me, it still wouldn't be "tens of thousands of miles" (which implies at least 20,000 or more).

Geography ftw.
I guess you assume the cabling runs in a straight lines? And you are about 6,000 miles off, it's 24,901.55 miles a the equator.

I'm in Kentucky and didn't experience a single lag spike in the 3 hours I was on GW this evening. A friend in Florida experienced many lag spikes.

If you truly want to know anything about where your lag is occurring, do a trace route or pathping.

Icy The Mage

Icy The Mage

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2008

Canada

E/

This is happening to me too, not now anymore, but a few hours ago it was - Canada, Ontario

Daenara

Daenara

Bad Romance

Join Date: May 2006

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Grand Matron

Mo/

Well, my internet has been shaped to 28k for the past 24 hours.. (don't ask, fail aussie internet etc) and I havent' disconnected once. No lag, not even a bad ping.

Stc95

Stc95

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Dec 2007

USA

Spirit of Elisha [SOE]

Mo/

I was getting it during RA and HA. But it died off about an hr ago for me.

germanturkey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

[PoW]

E/

i stayed green most of the time, with maybe 1 or 2 spikes to 500.. no dc

Pwny Ride

Pwny Ride

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Aussieland

Prime Players Of [OSHA] ~ [dth] alliance. <3

Me/E

Been all clear from me all weekend. Note that i live in Australia, if that helps at all.

Maybe it's punishment for screwing up the golbal credit rating.

Pure Disasta

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2006

REGINA:

The Network Operations team reports that there have been no issues with the servers or the network on our end in the past serveral days. There are any number of problems that could happen between your computer and our servers and back that could cause lag or disconnects. If you are experiencing lag, the best thing you can do so that we can investigate to see whether there is a problem is to report it to Customer Support.

If you are experiencing problems, please report them to Customer Support. If more people reported problems, they would be able to aggregate the reports to see if there are problems on our end and where those problems are.

ME:

Awesome 8/8 of people in my uwsc group from my guild got hit the exact time with 3 seperate cases of lag were it completely froze gwars. Still going on right now gg.

Edit: 5 mins later - 2 more times it happens - regardless of what your ping is, hey at least uw is hard now

2 mins later - 2 more yay

Batsugun

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Oct 2008

USSR

OOTU

W/N

Had 3 disco's last night, and some moments where I lagged to the point where all movement stopped...

Sort this out plox.

echX

echX

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Molock View Post
This is actually a serious problem.. thousands of players basically can't play....

Actually... a... serious... problem...???

Dude, like thousands of ppl around the world is dying due to the lack of clean drinking water, EVERY DAY! THAT, my friend, is a serious problem!

This is a vidoegame. We, not beeing able to play the game, is NOT a serious problem. That's just annoying, nothing else. As Lyynyyrd said, we don't know what's causing it, stupid thread indeed.

Get outdoors and play some soccer with your friends, perhaps Anet have fixed the issue when you gt back in

Gli

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

I've been deathlevelling charr for the past week, setting them up before I go to sleep, killing them in the morning and then setting them up before I leave for work, to kill them early in the evening. Just one disconnect in 6 days, on the American servers.

Seems pretty OK to me.

SkekSister

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2008

Brighton UK

I've had really bad server problems this last week or so. Regular 30-60 second timeouts and DCs. Farming the UW or playing in HM is basically impossible. The guild vanquishes we have tried this last week almost inevitably end up with a member or two getting dropped back into town before we are halfway through.

Very frustrating and def server side.

Stuart444

Stuart444

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

Alexandria, Scotland

The Charter Vanguard [CV]

W/

I haven't been on recently so i can't comment on the server problems but.....

Everyone who is getting lag problems, go to support and report it, the more people who report it (With as much detail as possible), the faster they can figure out the problem and fix it.

tell people in towns/your guild/alliance etc to do that as well, better to do that than complain imo

ChillOutDude

ChillOutDude

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

USA

W/

30k+ ping just started , middle east .

Yol

Yol

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

GameAmp Guides [AMP]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart444 View Post
Everyone who is getting lag problems, go to support and report it, the more people who report it (With as much detail as possible), the faster they can figure out the problem and fix it.
Can somebody remind me please, what's the type-in run command that creates the text file with the diagnostic report for your internet connection to the game server?

[edit] got it
"C:\Program Files\Guild Wars\Gw.exe" -diag

Red Sonya

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

No problems here, maybe it's just 1000's of crappy single core computers out there that can't keep up with technology and expect single cores to work like quad cores.

Yol

Yol

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2007

GameAmp Guides [AMP]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Sonya View Post
No problems here, maybe it's just 1000's of crappy single core computers out there that can't keep up with technology and expect single cores to work like quad cores.
Alas, having a quad-core didn't stop me and several of my alliance members getting numerous lag-spikes and d/c's yesterday...

psycore

psycore

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Why don't you people exhaust every other method of diagnosing your connections before blaming Anet - there are myriads of problems that can be the cause of a faulty connection, the only one Anet have control over is their own server(s) - it is fine for many many other players, you guys just come here to look for a quick fix instead of following proper procedures for getting a faulty connect diagnosed.

Just for the record, I'm from Au as well - just about as far from the Anet servers you can get and I am also experiencing ZERO problems.