Ports to open

So Guild Wars has always been my laggiest game, and I never knew why.
Then someone told me to check out if I have the right ports opened for it, never thought of that yet...
So the network I have set up has games on lowest priority unless the port is opened so that pretty much sums up why I lag so badly in this game.

So can tell me which ports I need to open for this game?

http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsof...i=&p_topview=1

Additionally: If you run software such as peerguardian2, you will need to "Allow" guild wars IP ranges. The following is needed for that.

63.115.68.0 - 63.115.68.255
64.25.32.0 - 64.25.47.255
206.127.144.0 - 206.127.159.255
209.120.141.240 - 209.120.141.255
209.120.218.32 - 209.120.218.47
216.107.240.0 - 216.107.255.255

(Note: The above were my own findings, they are probably not as tight as they could be to keep out other traffic while allowing GW. They are just a guideline and what I personally use.)

Alright, thanks a lot.
No further discussion is needed I guess.

Let me be the judge of that...

Heh

Also Portforward is your friend in situations like this.

http://portforward.com/

Just select the router and game you need configurations for and it will give you a step by step guide to opening the needed ports.

TY. playied the game for 4 years and never new this! doh!



@gameshoes3003 Any luck? better pings? less lag?

Alright, this port turns out to be the exact same port that Star Craft uses which I have already had set as a high priority.
So there is no improvement.
I'm just guessing it's my internet service, but it's so strange that Guild Wars is the only game I have that lags.

OK, if that didnt help any, then the next question would be: Are you ona Wireless LAN connection to your router and what is your LAN hardware?

I found that GW lagged like mad while I was on my old Linksys WLAN router. The only way I managed to fix it in the end (after countless updates and Firmware changes) was take a really big hammer, smash the router and buy a powerline network.

My desktop computer which I play my games on is hooked up via a cable, so no wireless here. Well, there is wireless but I'm not using it. I wonder what's wrong with my network...

I've got a hell a lot of lagging issues since saturday, all my traces fail when it comes to pinging Frankfurt's servers ...

My issue is that this is an ongoing problem that happens regardless of time. If the servers are lagging at a particular time, I just lag more than before. At any other time, my average ping is 190-3800 ms (yes, the thousands) which is incredibly frustrating sometimes, especially when it comes down to interrupting.