Fix Servers?

Motoko

Motoko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Dallas, Texas

Zero Quality [zQ] /[LaG]/[USA]/[iQ]

A/E

What is the deal with periodic lag of random players in this game? It's not even the entire team that is lagging, just a few people. It's not a constant lag 24/7 but periodic spirts of lag.

Anet fix please?

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Random lag with random people sounds like their own problem.

If your whole group had the same problem it was probably GW's problem.

Motoko

Motoko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Dallas, Texas

Zero Quality [zQ] /[LaG]/[USA]/[iQ]

A/E

I would normally agree except my vent and browser had perfectly fine ping.

pOmrAkkUn

pOmrAkkUn

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Bangkok

Me/Mo

I have problem with only server 206.
216 ping ~ 250-350
222 ping ~ 150-300
206 ping ~ 15,000 ++ - D/C

May be this is my own internet problem but just give some informations.

SerenitySilverstar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

It could be anything from the users computer and software, to their modem, their ISP, or connections between users ISP and Anet servers. The internet is a big place, with lots of cables strung between countries and across continents.

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gladiator Motoko View Post
I would normally agree except my vent and browser had perfectly fine ping.

But you said random people. Your vent and browser having a good ping have nothing to do with John Paul who lives 300 miles away.

Motoko

Motoko

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Dallas, Texas

Zero Quality [zQ] /[LaG]/[USA]/[iQ]

A/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca View Post
But you said random people. Your vent and browser having a good ping have nothing to do with John Paul who lives 300 miles away.
If my other internet related programs are working at an efficient rate, chances are the issue is Anet related. Did that clear it up for you bud?

immortius

immortius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Black Cats

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gladiator Motoko View Post
If my other internet related programs are working at an efficient rate, chances are the issue is Anet related. Did that clear it up for you bud?
Not necessarily true.

There are three places a lag issue can generally be:
* With your ISP
* With the GW servers
* Somewhere inbetween.

The first is your problem, the second is ANets, and the third is a headache for everyone involved.

As the servers you are connected to for other applications are located different to GW's servers, the path to those servers may not contain the problematic node on the way to the GW servers.

Unless you actually run Ping Plotter or something similar to track down where the problem is coming from then you don't know, and you shouldn't jump to unfounded conclusions.

Snow Bunny

Snow Bunny

Alcoholic From Yale

Join Date: Jul 2007

Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca View Post
Random lag with random people sounds like their own problem.

If your whole group had the same problem it was probably GW's problem.
I get perfect ping in CoD4, my browser loads up quick, itunes downloads fast, etc.

It's absolutely Anet's servers.

Winterclaw

Winterclaw

Wark!!!

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

W/

All I know is for the past 2-3 weeks, lag has been a lot worse for me.

Fril Estelin

Fril Estelin

So Serious...

Join Date: Jan 2007

London

Nerfs Are [WHAK]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by immortius View Post
Unless you actually run Ping Plotter or something similar to track down where the problem is coming from then you don't know, and you shouldn't jump to unfounded conclusions.
Exactly. If people knew how the Internet is built, by definition of it you can't blame a particular node unless you've got confirmed ping routes and times from several players in different geographical locations. The net provides a "best effort" quality of service, meaning you'll regularly get routes with high pings because there's absolutely no guarantee whatsoever (and your network packets do not necessarily follow the same route), until we move to a kind of Internet2.

And server load is also unpredictable, and tbh for a f2p game you don't get the top server ISPs (Anet buy this service from a set of companies accross the world). I found I more rarely get now the 50ms pings I used to get, but it may be because I'm switching quite often between AD and ED. And I'm still getting good 200ms pings.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

The problem has more than one cause. Trying to pin it on one thing absolutely isn't necessarily correct. For you, it might be ANet. For someone else it might be their ISP. The list goes on and on.

Divinus Stella

Divinus Stella

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Wales

Steel Phoenix

I play on two different connections, the one which i use during the week has been having these lag spikes almost like im about to drop connection and i know a couple of other people ingame with similar problems.

My other connection is fine (aside from the 150~ average ping which guildwars is famous for).

I don't mind too much since i dont play anything other than PvE and RA during the week but if it starts on my other connection i wont be happy.

Physical

Physical

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

The Netherlands

Needs a GvG guild..

R/Mo

I've got the same problem.. Sometimes huge laggs, and then the Alliance Chat is spammed with things like (omg lagg!) (massive lag..) (freeeeeeeeze) and such things.. So it's def. GW I think..

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

*looks at Physical's profile*

Location: The Netherlands

Nope, that's the problem. Look at the lag threads posted in here in the last few months/weeks. Location is one of the main commonalities.

riktw

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2008

netherlands

Mo/E

hey, i am from the netherlands to, but my guild got people from all over the world, and ometimes they are all complaining about lag at the same time.

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

I know. Location is still one of the commonalities though. Not everyone fits in that category, but a lot of people do. That's why it's called a commonality.

moriz

moriz

??ber t??k-n??sh'??n

Join Date: Jan 2006

Canada

R/

netherlands? you mean home to the epic 13 ping that some people are getting?

Aera

Aera

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

Galactic President Superstar Mc [awsm]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by moriz View Post
netherlands? you mean home to the epic 13 ping that some people are getting?
Like me. No problems here. Had a total of 3 disconnects in my entire GW 'career' so far, no lag.

This has been discussed over and over: it's usually a conflict between certain ISPs and Anet's servers, but it doesn't go for everyone.

And no, a good ping on vent/porndownload 2.0/ whatever does NOT mean it's Anet's servers.

Siirius Black

Siirius Black

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Dragon's Lair

La Legion Del Dragon

E/

Ok, I never got disconnected because of lag before.
But yesterday we where getting ready to go to underworld and we where in our Guild Hall. I got disconnected 3 times as well as 2 other guildies. We where still at ventrilo so I know it was not my connection.

All 3 of us disconnecting at the same time is no coincidence. I got killed 3 times because of lag while we where in UW. That has never happened to me.

I did not notice which server I was connected to, but I know the lag came from GW servers. All the team experienced random 1 to 2 seconds spikes while in UW last night.

By the way, our team location where :
United States
Argentina
Spain
Mexico

StellarAshes

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mo/

Likewise I've been often getting disconnected after a lag spike, but it doesn't seem like anyone else lagged. I also have other internet applications running (even pinging google, and no packets were lost) smoothly. The worst part of all this is that I always get error 7 after trying to reconnect.