They Moved the Server and it's Horrible

Same problem last night. It seemed to get worse the later it went. So worse that i just switched to another game because i had 2-3 seconds lag spikes every 20 or so seconds, which makes the game unplayable. Never had that kind of bad lag spikes before. I hope Anet can fix it. I live in Quebec city.

i was doing fine till about 8pm yesterday. Almost done with one of those wik quests and BAM! my first ever d/c . I stopped for about 2hrs came back and i could move around fine and fight so it must have been resolved. But yes idk why but i now seem to be getting a higher FPS and my avreage ping always seems to be green (ive seen green ping once while play GW ;P)
So i'm happy about the server updates. Seems like they focused alot of the power to centeral in america to oversees. Well im happy with it

There were some hiccups before the down time but it's been smooth for me in the midwest. A guild mate had real problems last night and lagged out, but isn't new to having Internet problems. I say let everything settle down, it was a big move and they are working on the problem, let's have patience.

Meanwhile my other character in town had green ping. After a few minutes of complete unplayability, the ping went back to normal. Central US, and never had anything like this happen before.

Ahh strike what I said before too about no problems. lol. Signed on, was just standing in GH, 12k ping, 007'd. XD

64.25.39.59, in all the screenshots with really high pings, is nobody making any connections yet? Come on, guys, it's only a part of the otherwise finely functioning system...

This post is directed to Rebel.

I've always had problem with lag spikes (occasionaly, like once a month) - each game I've ever played had lag spikes.
I didn't have any lag spikes yet after the downtime, and everything seems fine. Stop whining that we're being 'hosed down' or the servers got 'downgraded', I mean GW1 has run for 5years and the playerbase is obviously lower then it was 5years ago; why would Anet pay for servers that are useless?

But I believe all this downgrading, hosing down, lagspikes and God knows what is in your head, between your ears, you're making it up; for most people nothing has changed, everything is as it should be, and honestly, why would they tell you why they moved the servers? I honestly don't think it matters anyways, they just moved the servers, some people are having problems, and they're sorting it all out, and I trust them to fix it. The end.

And even if they DID downgrade the servers, they didn't 'hose us'. It's bullshit to pay for something thats not needed. If downgraded servers should be able to handle the current playerbase the way it always did; I and many others are happy with it.
(Excuse me, I don't have much knowledge about the 'servers' thing, I don't know anything about servers)

Rebel(whatever you're called), you are no internet police, you can't make the internet a better place, your actions are pointless(the Infinity Ward thing is totally unrelated with this), and.. well you're just hallucinating. Company greed? Well the purpose of a company is making money, charity does not excist.

pz bro

I'll be dammed.

Same exact thing happened to me, only it lasted longer than a few minutes. on the same IP apparently, I just sent a support ticket

EDIT

CakeTown, what you described in this post is the exact problem I had on that specific IP.

Getting horrible ping. Went from a usual ping of 20-30 to a ping of 200-300. Gg.

Central coast California here. No real issues. A bit of lag yesterday, but it went away pretty quick.

But really OP, have you ever worked on computers? Ever worked through the night to have a business' system ready by the time the employees came through the door in the morning? Probably not. Give Anet a few days to straighten things out before you have a hissy and threaten not to buy GW2. Geez.

Believe it or not, it's in Anet's best interested to get things up and working as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Yes, 206 ecc is from Europe. I think it was the same before, but not sure cause I never look.

Same problem here. I was able to VQ several areas yesterday and when I logged on this morning, high ping spikes, rubberbanding, and eventually just dc 007. And yes, it does seem to be the 64.x.x.x server in question and I am located in the Western USA (Ut).

I dc'ed once, logged back in and experienced about 5 minutes of +10k ping. After enduring that, the ping settled to where I'd expect it to go and then proceeded to farm Charr north of the wall the rest of the night w/o any problems.

Upper Midwest US

i have nice low ping, no problems here.

Canada here btw.

Few hours ago when i was in AB queue on european districts i had 100-150 ping, on American 15k+ and 007 every few minutes.

Krakow, Poland

Only lagged yesterday got a few spikes but now it seems fine..
Dont know about the big fuzz about lagging.

East coast USA here and doing fine, seeing pretty much the same pings as before. It's usually around 120 but averages around 500 because of occasional 5-20k lag spikes.

I'm guessing the datacenter move changed the traceroutes for people in certain locations such as the west coast and stumbled into a deadbeat ISP somewhere.

Same here. I see people complain about it but I haven't had any problems with my connection to GW.

Hmm yes, I still don't know the cause, but I had the problem prior to the move. After I was away for a while, the game worked fine, and still does, so I'm not sure what caused my problem, but I can imagine that your problem is being caused by the server lags, as I have this problem aswell when I experience lag spikes, but yeah..

I still trust Anet to fix the problems soon enough, though I'm not having any of these problems.

Holy crap! The green dot actually exists! I thought it was a myth...

I live on the east coast and I rarely ever saw my ping drop below 350ms until today. Right now I'm seeing numbers as low as 70ms and averaging about 150ms. I saw a few 300s but it drops down to about 80ms pretty past. If those are my new lag spikes, awesome! The random 2500+ spikes I got in the past weren't fun at all.

As for those of you having issues since the move, it may not even be a problem on Anet's side. Your connection goes through several routers before reaching the final destination and they can go bad. Just one bad hop and you you can experience higher pings, lag spikes, and inability to connect at all.

The servers are in another location and your connection is taking a different path to reach them now. Take off your foil hats and give it a few days!

Maybe someone from Anet could post to let us know that the move is complete and everything is working as it should on their side? It may allow some people to remove their foil hats and stop screaming about the falling sky. Then again, those are usually the people that assume every word from CR is 100% bull. Oh well... worth a try!