Maybe time for better servers

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

anyone here have terrible lag?
cuz it's taking me 10 goddamn minutes to change a simple district
atm i'm still waiting for my game to unfreeze

gg failnet

Alyssaa

Alyssaa

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2007

The Netherlands

[TLP]

E/

My whole alliance is ragequitting because of this terrible lag.

Edit: Europe here, The Netherlands.

garethporlest18

garethporlest18

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

[HiDe]

W/

What lag? I don't see any lag.

Hyperventilate

Hyperventilate

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2007

Somewhere in California

I Gots A Crayon [Blue]

Me/Mo

Wow. For once I wasn't experiencing any lag other than from my own crappy ISP. I already knew it was a POS (But I can't get any better. Yay rural areas), so I'm pretty stunned that people are having issues and I'm not. Hmm.

Edit: If it makes any difference, I'm in the western US.

Lifestyle

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2009

R/Mo

I'm getting kicked out of the game every 3 seconds :/

Cuilan

Cuilan

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2008

Me/

Very little lag if any here. Sorry.

Gin Cometh

Gin Cometh

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2007

UK

Me/Mo

Yes , this morning been having 56k pings, random disconnects after said ping spikes & just a moment ago had been thrown out of game.
Playing in Euro English.

Kazza

Banned

Join Date: Feb 2008

UK

TLH

E/

the lag is horrendous today i am on my second dishonourable i am from uk

Lifestyle

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2009

R/Mo

Can we get everyone to post where they're from? In the past there's generally been alot of lag for the euro players, but not as much for the americans.

BTW, I'm from europe :P

Destiny2097

Destiny2097

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Over 9000 ping (10k actually). Europe.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

can't play like this
always horrible lag here in euro Belgium

off to play some more Manhunt

Squishy ftw

Squishy ftw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

Your backline

W/

I disconnect like every 5 seconds..

<Europe.

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

Lag used to always be an issue at festival times and practically never at any other time.
Leastways that's my experience of the net 50% of the time when I am getting slow traffic its an isp problem in my area the rest of the time I never find the cause.

My isp isn't perfect also there are things called Nodes and net traffic has to go through a series of these to get to Europe the USA Asia or wherever.
The further the distance the more nodes and a problem at one could slow or rerout the packets of info.

Point is the internet is complicated and really the only way to maybe blame the servers is if everyone is having problems.
Unfortunatly I have no way to check everyone.

I would check all other possible causes before assuming its the servers.

Exception
It has always been a problem for Australian and New Zealand players I remember many posts about this game and bad lag.


Update
Can confirm game lag for myself in the UK and a guildie in Belgium as of 13-30 uk time

jotes

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2008

Poland

My Hovercraft Is Full Of [Eels]

It terrible.
Ping over 120k (sic!), DC very 3-5 minutes.

37er

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2008

Ibiza, Spain

[HOPE]

W/

also lag here QQ

Davy

Davy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2006

Europe

Mo/

Belgium, Europe

vent ping: 22
vent ping other server: 66
both normal
msn + xfire report no problems
guru and other webpages load within 5 seconds

4 dcs from guild wars in the last 10 minutes, average pings of 20k+, freeze every 30 sec or less.

Sure I have to blame my ISP... GW servers are just perfect

Artisan Archer

Artisan Archer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2007

Free Wind

R/

Same problem; Netherlands, Europe.

DC's every few minutes, huge lag.

prinzess of life

prinzess of life

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2007

outside U.S. where Guru can't send the Prizes won in a contest.

Prinzess found his Princess[KaJo]

W/A

I'm in UK, my Internet connection is just fine. Just when i try to play guildwars today i constantly get kicked out with error 7. Even geting to the login screen takes forever.
I don't believe it has something to do with my connection.
A-net or N-soft , whoever is responsible for theire servers should do something about this, it's geting beyond a joke ... all this started when N-soft released Aion ... it comes to the point where i start to believe they realocated all the good servers to Aion and kept the poor servers to run Guildwars on...
Do they want to kill off Guildwars to make us play a Pay to play game and get away with the fact that they promised use to get a game called Guildwars 2 which is so far back in the making that i personaly don't think they will ever finish it ....all we have seen so far of Guildwars 2 is concept art an a Teaser , did it take them so long to make that??

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

N/

No lag whatsoever. USA

Nerf Me Haha

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2009

Dyslexic Tendencies [SpAz]

W/

Anet should forget about GW2, if they can't maintain there servers now, what will happen when GW2 gets out? thats way more ppl then GW1 ever had...

poppu16

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

W/

Playing from europe, France. Not one single lag the past 2hours.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Mixed signals from my alliance (Netherlands/Belgium).

Some have been experiencing lag for some time now, others haven't got any problem playing.

Haven't got any problems either. Like nearly everytime when these threads pop up. Guess I got a good connection.

Abedeus

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

R/

And I remember having a discussion with someone that A.Net does nothing about the lag... And he said "what lag, I don't hear anything like that". Well, he does now.

Meridon

Meridon

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Dec 2008

Funny Business Inc [FBI]

Either way, at this point the server issue seems to be regional. People in the States and certain parts of Europe don't seem to be experiencing any lag at all, while other parts of Europe, inlcuding the Netherlands, do get massive lag spikes. This has been an ongoing problem for at least 3 months now, and still nothing has been done about it.

I'm currently pretty active in a Dutch Teamspeak (yes I know, omglolTeamspeak blahblah) server, with many Dutch GW players online. It's pretty obvious to see the lag isn't our fault as we all completely lag-freeze at the same time, only in GW and not in TS, while we're all playing in different parts of the game, both in EU, US and International districts. If it's true that there are some regions unaffected, then it's likely to be some kind of routing issue with one of the GW server hosts on mainland Europe.

The problem still is, it has been happening for over 3 months now, and nothing has been done. ArenaNET is the only one who can fix this, and while we all now they divesting into GW1, this is not the way to go. Either they should fix the problem, or shut down the servers completely. Obviously, I'm not in favour of the second option.

It would be very nice and helpful to get a response from an Anet employee on this, just so we know that they will at least look into the matter.

Stop The Storm

Stop The Storm

Keeping DoA Alive

Join Date: Jan 2007

England

Were In [DoA]

A/N

anet will not even release a statement to say theyre looking into it, with this ammount of people complaining, id think it should be one of their top priorities.

theyre shooting themselves in the foot dimissing the lag completely and saying its our end. we KNOW that it isnt. whether its GW servers or routing on the way to GW servers, something isnt right.

sort it out anet, even if you just say, look, we know theres a problem, were looking into it, hopefully we can resolve it for our community, thatd be fine!

Zebideedee

Zebideedee

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

55?? 57' 0" N / 3?? 12' 0" W

N/Me

Awful, awful lag today, I logged out, in LA my connection circle dot thingy was at red with the little lightning symbol while my connection was at excellent in Windows taskbar. If it's not Anet's servers how come Flyff a ftp Korean game, UT3 & L4D can all mantain much more stability?

Scotland btw

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Stop The Storm View Post
anet will not even release a statement to say theyre looking into it, with this ammount of people complaining, id think it should be one of their top priorities.

theyre shooting themselves in the foot dimissing the lag completely and saying its our end. we KNOW that it isnt. whether its GW servers or routing on the way to GW servers, something isnt right.

sort it out anet, even if you just say, look, we know theres a problem, were looking into it, hopefully we can resolve it for our community, thatd be fine!
It's weekend too in ANet world.

Also:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10405739

Lishy

Lishy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuilan View Post
Very little lag if any here. Sorry.
This.

Any lag I have is the result of my crappy router.

prey monkie

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2009

[OhNo] Mallyx and Friends

Mo/

an hour ago i dc'ed every 10 min togheter with all my dutch buddies. everybody else had no probs but all dutch people dc al the same time. somebody owns me 8k for the conset i had to pay in fow-_-. maybe something local ( netherlands provider) or its GW cuz playing like this is bs

edit: i just dc'ed again, im like james bond!

ratz2010

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2008

gmt -4

W/R

Eastern Canada - lagging during the weekends, up to 14k ms with disconnects, otherwise during the week its fine.

Schnellburg

Schnellburg

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2006

America -5 GMT

Me/

Vent ping:40
GW Ping: 100

No disconnects in about 2 hours of playing so far. Actually haven't DC'd in over 2 weeks easily.

Silverhand

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2007

Virtual Benchwarmers [VB]

i havent had any lag and im from the US so

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

Why is it that I don't see any tracert's, any pathping's, any pingplotter graphs in this thread? Sure, it's easy to blame a-net whenever there's lag, but has any single one of the complainers here actually tried to verify that the problem is really with a-net and not your ISP or an intermediate node?

Xenex Xclame

Xenex Xclame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

DPX

R/

Kinda late to the party but,was playing yesterday and I started getting kicked of GW err7 and gave up after about 5 kicks with 50K ping.

Edit: oops forgot to add im in Netherlands.

Chthon is right,it must be our fault,all of us with different isp and and different locations and seeing as the issue doesn't affect any of our other internet programs (msn,vent,TS,browser,irc etc etc),it must be our fault.

Lodar Aric

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Blackburn, UK

The League of Friends [LoF]

E/

Having problems myself, based in England on the Euro servers. I have some friends from other European countries also complaining of lag spikes and disconnections.

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenex Xclame View Post
Chthon is right,it must be our fault,all of us with different isp and and different locations and seeing as the issue doesn't affect any of our other internet programs (msn,vent,TS,browser,irc etc etc),it must be our fault.
And if I tell you I'm not experiencing any major lag or disconnects whatsoever?

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

Quote:
Originally Posted by Schnellburg View Post
Ditto. Maybe we should be proud to be American as we are not having lag issues like the rest of the world?

Vent ping:40
GW Ping: 100

No disconnects in about 2 hours of playing so far. Actually haven't DC'd in over 2 weeks easily.
A few days ago I was having L/C's, D/C's and err7's while vanquishing difficult areas with my guildie.

- I'm in the Netherlands
- We have pretty amazing internet in the Netherlands
- It was not my ISP
- GW Ping: average 60 (I checked a lot)
- My guildie and I were alternating disconnects, leaving us unable to vanquish anything together

Conclusion: GW servers were to blame.

Xenex Xclame

Xenex Xclame

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

DPX

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Arduinna View Post
And if I tell you I'm not experiencing any major lag or disconnects whatsoever?
Then your lucky,and im happy for you.But saying its my/our fault when multiple people which have very little in common are having problems is just stupid.This time it probably is some problem in a wire somewhere in europe affecting some of us in EU.

But I dont see how we can do anything to solve it?So Anet as a business has the resposiblity to get solution for us.

HellScreamS

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2009

wouldn't you like to know?

^yea KFC just subscribed to me for 1 year^

P/

central Europe and absolutely NO lag to be had those days, I d/ced today once, but it was the internet provider's fault. All goes smooth

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenex Xclame View Post
But I dont see how we can do anything to solve it?So Anet as a business has the resposiblity to get solution for us.
I don't remember Anet putting down that cables over there that gives you your internet.

I'd say there would be something in the EULA about Anet not being responsible for any connection problems from your place to their servers.