Massive lagspikes in UW

Indeed, I counted no less than 15 DC's during our DoA HM full run last nite. Yet we got to finish in a decent time. Gj Aly

I was playing AB yesterday and for a good 5 minutes we had epic lagspikes. Everybody would simply stop moving and 5 people disconnected.

It was clearly a server or intermediate problem but it certainly wasn't our ISPs.

indeed, what the heck is up with that?

ever since the last "ai" update heroes have been broken.

Thats anets definition of an improvement (See Izzy skill balancing)

I got err 7's several times during Hero Battles yesterday evening and during the AT too.

Someone needs to airdust gw servers...

1 DC last night, who cares. These things happen once in a while. Either heavy server use for some reason like it's SUNDAY, or something else. They come and go, suck it up.

Are you an ANet Support employee?

If lots of people are having a negative experience, providing information regarding when and where the problems are occurring should help diagnose and correct the problem.

If you go to the doctor and complain of shortness of breath, and the doctor just prescribes you a statin and sends you on your way without asking about other symptoms, we call it malpractice.

You're going a step further than THAT by arguing that the patient shouldn't even bother to call the doctor.

In the last 4 or 5 times I tried to do UW last night, we never finished because of lag spikes and dcs. It's getting pretty annoying ... and definitely not ISPs or lack of defragging when 4 ppl say "anyone else lag there?" at the same time.

It should be noted that the only time I d/ced during the aforementioned DoA run was a time when my ping was green. The same thing happened to another person on the run.

Lag isnt always ANet's fault. It's sad that some people always blame the guy at the far end. It's kinda like...

It normally takes 10 minutes to drive to the store. If you have bad traffic, and it takes 20 minutes, do you blame the store?

You see, there's your computer, ANet's server, and a whole lot of internet between you! And you know what, it could even be ANet's ISP! Or one of the handful of other service providers that route the traffic between you and them. And then back again.

As an administrator for a large web site for a computer peripheral company (>1,000,000 pages per week) and ftp site (> 100,000 downloads per day), I have seen this first-hand, and know it to be the truth.

Now I'm not saying that it's not ANet's fault. I'm just saying that from personal experience, there are other explanations...

Well, that's a very valid point. However, I've been standing in Kamadan doing nothing for the past hour, and have error 7'ed 5 times so far. My internet is just fine, vent is fine, I'm not having connection issues and neither are the other people in my apartment, yet the problem persists. If it was Anet's ISP having the problems, my game data would still be saved on the servers and I'd be able to reconnect to my previous session. Since error 7 means none of my data is getting saved, I'm thinking it's a server problem rather than Anet's ISP.

If you're standing in Kamadan or any other city, you'll get err7'ed if you d/c no matter what. Reconnecting only works when you're outside of a city/outpost.

this is actually anets secret plan to stop people farming/UWSC and also to kick people off the servers so they can paying for them

LOL

If only that joke wasnt so old....

If you are all connected to the same servers, doing the exact same things, then I can buy the "my internet is fine" (which I take to mean that your connection to your ISP). But if you are doing the same things (standing in Kamadan, in the same district, which means that you are connected to the same server), and you get booted, but they don't, how can that be ANet's fault? Their connection to the same server works! If you are doing something different, then they are connecting to different servers, which completely invalidates your point.

And just because you can talk on vent, and don't see (hear?) any problems doesn't mean that your connection to the GW servers are clear. Different destinations take different routes. The vent server could be in the same town, and the GW server clear across the country! To use my road analogy, just because the road from New York to Miami is open and fast does not mean that the road from New York and Chicago is also open and fast! One could be clear, and the other have heavy congestion...

I was just trying to demonstrate that the problem wasn't emanating from my ISP.

And for the record, one of my other roommates plays GW and he is experiencing the same problems with error 7 that I have for the past 4-5 days now.

Additionally, in one of the aforementioned UWSC runs, 7/8 of our party timed out due to lag at the same time, and I know for a fact that the majority of the 7 of us live in different areas of the world (California, India, England, etc...), which makes me believe it's something to do with the servers that's the root of the problem (or software), and not local connection issues. For all 7 of to have connectivity problems in different areas of the world at the exact same time seems improbable.

Hey I like my pron, kthx.

On a serious note, my comp is clean, I always have it scanned and what not. Today I got a really bad lag spike while running cof. I got hit with a 5k ping spike first and then a network error. I came back with like 1 hp, someone healed me and not more than like 5 seconds later, I was staring at a network error box again. And then anet proceeded to d/c one of my party members 7 times in a row. Yes 7 TIMES. I waited until everyone came back safely and when I zoned to the 2nd floor I lost like half of my party because they didn't load in.

I don't think it's just a coincidence, srsly.

Yeah, it's been goofy lately. Though part of it may be my stupid internet provider (curse you Comcast).

I was doing a mission (Jennur's Horde - hate that one sometimes), we were almost done with it and the bonus...on last harby of NF. Then I dc. I try reconnecting a few times, finally it works and I find myself back in the outpost with mission not complete. -_- Needless to say, I was a bit miffed.

And also during CoF run, similar things have been happening, so I haven't even bothered doing them for a while now.

I was doing a CoF run last night and I was having worse lag than usual. Caused me to die a couple times. Since it was just one night for me so far it may have just been my internet, but with everyone else also reporting issues as of late, it seems like Guild War's servers may be having some problems.

I'm having higher ping in UW than anywhere else in the game. My average ping is usually between 150 and 300, while my average ping in UW is around the 1-2k, with 5-20k spikes. I left UW, went in HA and had no problem. Went back in UW, more lag but less intense (500-900 - nothing horrible, but noticeable and very annoying).

I was running with a friend and he had UW lag as well. Both our Vent pings were normal, and I could surf the net just fine. I had nothing else downloading at that time, nothing was updating.

I highly doubt it's a conspiracy theory, but I'd like to know what's up with it o.o. For all I know it could be some routing issues to the server, the ISPs, the servers itself... O_o.