Amazon Servers

[GDchiaScrub.3241]

@ThunderPanda.1872 said:

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@ThunderPanda.1872 said:Can we just move NA servers to Australia?Cant Australians just move to NA? Its about as reasonable.

Is NA a superior place to live?

Dunno about superior, but ANET is a Murican company so...yeh.

[Rampage.7145]

Amazon servers fixed skill lag in 3 way battles, that was asked from anet ever since day 1, i am sorry aussies get more lag tho, that kinda sucks, amazon have different host locations for their services, maybe they could look into that, me personally get way better ping and overall better performance ever since the changed their host and skill lag in EBG is completely fixed so big not to this thread.

[XenesisII.1540]

Lag started to hit again after 10:30, major rubber banding happening although I didn't go above 300 ping this time around.Not in ocx, but on east coast so dunno.

[Ya Ya Yeah.7381]

4.5k five minutes ago blue borderlands 3 way. Never got lag outside of 3 way smc fight before. I guess no more big fights. Everything running fast as can be except GW2. I'm guessing they already know that it really is ruining game play for some people. Had it good for 5 years. Here's to hoping they fix it somehow. NA nw region here.

[coglin.1496]

@Klipso.8653 said:We pushed up a staircase at smc and I had 3 frames before I was dead, kitten needs to fix

I think you misunderstand how aspects of the world work here. No servers + router + service provider network systems combined, have been invented yet that can handle information from 120-180 locations and 120-180 PCs and reliably maintain a steady or even reasonable framerate for every participant at a fee reasonable for you to afford at your income level.

[Ya Ya Yeah.7381]

Just wanted to thank Anet. A couple of days after my post on the 14th, it was miraculously fixed after months of unprecedented lag. Thank you Anet :) Nice to be able to do large fights again.

[BlaqueFyre.5678]

@ThunderPanda.1872 said:

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@ThunderPanda.1872 said:Can we just move NA servers to Australia?Cant Australians just move to NA? Its about as reasonable.

Is NA a superior place to live?

I wouldn’t say superior but, cheaper to purchase a plethora of things and there are no Drop Bears?.

Downside no Vegemite.

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

@BlaqueFyre.5678 said:Downside no Vegemite.

I have no trouble obtaining Vegemite in major US and Canadian cities.(I just have trouble eating it more than 1-2x/year. It's not my cup of tea.)

[Ya Ya Yeah.7381]

And it's back, seems every night for the last 5 nights or so its starts around 7 pm MT. Super Ping spikes. NW region NA, blue BL tonight, last night was red BLs. I was hoping since the last time I made the post here you guys fixed it in a couple of days. It's definitely not on my end. Please fix again :)

[Pepper.3901]

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:Overall, ANet's data shows better ping/uptime for more people than before, slightly worse for a few, and (as with any transition) far worse for a fraction. Additionally, in many cases, the increased latency isn't because ANet is using Amazing/AWS, but because of the transition; apparently some networks are slow to update to recognize the change.

Regardless of what others are experiencing (good or bad), your situation needs its own troubleshooting:

• Run PingPlotter or similar software to track down the pathing and data loss for your route
• Send that data to ANet via a support ticket.
• Optional: also post on the forums (sometimes a fellow player can diagnose the issue)

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@"SlippyCheeze.5483" wroteIt's possible that the problem is anet, ... [however] ... the Internet is built in a way that three to five companies handle your traffic, if not more, just inside the continental USA. There are

lots

of places that the problem could spring from that neither end is responsible directly for. :(

https://www.pingplotter.com/fix-your-network

has a good guide for identifying where the problem is, but if you have trouble with that feel free to post screenshots from it and we can help work out where it is.

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Further Reading

• Stephen Clarke-Wilson, on his own ping from Seattle
  (spoiler alert: his route goes through Dallas (location of old datacenter) on the way to Virginia (location of Amazon AWS) )
• Same guy, on ping for ANet devs](
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/7doj1l/anet_can_we_please_get_an_actual_way_of_checking/dq0g4ax/
  )
• Also same guy, explaining why the change to Amazon is
  temporarily
  affecting people's connection
  (ISP/backbone issues, not the servers themselves or their location)

PingPlotter doesn't work on Windows 10.

[Sovereign.1093]

super ping hit me earlier in eb. u.u painful 3.8k ping. disappeared after awhile.

[MedievalThings.5417]

It's been the last 2 weeks for me. Super long lag spikes, ping jumps to 4 digit numbers regularly. All of the traceroutes, troubleshooting say everything is perfect up to the amazon servers, once it hits amazon, huge delays and lost packets.

[XenesisII.1540]

Still getting lag almost every night now from 9-11pm.It's like the time the server hamsters change shifts or something. :\

[Sovereign.1093]

gah. i report it everytime with scrrenshot of the 4k ping attack

i play wow at the moment while waiting for it to disappear.

[misterman.1530]

@"XenesisII.1540" said:Still getting lag almost every night now from 9-11pm.It's like the time the server hamsters change shifts or something. :\

"server hamsters"....I'm stealing that. It's mine now :)

Truthfully, though....I hit lag occasionally, and not just in WvW. Hit it doing the meta in Tangled Path recently. Was nuts. Did the testing with tracert and it seemed to be at Anet/Amazon end.

[XenesisII.1540]

@misterman.1530 said:

@"XenesisII.1540" said:Still getting lag almost every night now from 9-11pm.It's like the time the server hamsters change shifts or something. :\

"server hamsters"....I'm stealing that. It's mine now :)

Truthfully, though....I hit lag occasionally, and not just in WvW. Hit it doing the meta in Tangled Path recently. Was nuts. Did the testing with tracert and it seemed to be at Anet/Amazon end.

lol XDYeah it started up for me when they moved the servers to amazon, I usually would only get lag in the 3 way smc fights, now it's just wherever on whatever map at prime time na.

[misterman.1530]

@XenesisII.1540 said:

@misterman.1530 said:

@XenesisII.1540 said:Still getting lag almost every night now from 9-11pm.It's like the time the server hamsters change shifts or something. :\

"server hamsters"....I'm stealing that. It's mine now :)

Truthfully, though....I hit lag occasionally, and not just in WvW. Hit it doing the meta in Tangled Path recently. Was nuts. Did the testing with tracert and it seemed to be at Anet/Amazon end.

lol XDYeah it started up for me when they moved the servers to amazon, I usually would only get lag in the 3 way smc fights, now it's just wherever on whatever map at prime time na.

That's when I see it. And couple with the fact we are on T1 this week...you get the T1-blob-lag (or whatever is causing lag in T1-ville) and the lag-lag at the same time.

Fun :)

[Sovereign.1093]

i give up leading late sea. i just cant play. :/ glad my.guildy, red, will lead on those times stsrting tomorrow. :-)

[Sovereign.1093]

40s ping for me bro :/ ahu ahu ahu

its like anet telling me to play wow and overwatch more.

[DemonSeed.3528]

Hehehe, what I find interesting is that everyone assumes you're on even footing with ping - little do they know they are dying to someone who has 4k ping XDThat said I do wish these superbly fluctuating pings would get under control soon. None of my leaps connect - it's like they totally miss the mark which I am guessing is from the desync in location so I've sometimes had to change weapons or skills or just outright use the leaps for defensive purposes instead.

[XenesisII.1540]

Again tonight.. yeah this game is getting fucking unplayable for me now.

[Sovereign.1093]

i like the new scythe though. felt good when i bought it. made me forget about the 4k. and since there is that patch maybe, things will be a bit different.

[Aeolus.3615]

EU player on NA, i have been fine on the last weeks, no lag at all (way to fine IMO)

Maybe is some sorta of load balancing issue????

[Sovereign.1093]

dunno man. i run a potato pc =p

[Jooksify.3561]

I did some testing into my terrible connection to amazon servers a couple months ago. I was getting constant dial-up-like pings, and huge packet loss/spikes, after certain hours during the day(usually ~8pm CST) in the game (not just wvw). Normally I would get 40-90 ping even in the largest map Queued WvW fights in Tier1/2 any other time of the day. Pinging/tracert everything except the game servers yielded completely normal results, but there was terrible packet loss and ping to any Gw2 game server.

Then I remembered that I have a VPN subscription still going, so I turned that on and then connected. Lo and behold, lag, ping spikes, packet loss, GONE. I was suddenly playing at any time of the day with completely normal ping again. Magic, eh?

So it would appear, though I could be wrong as I am not networking expert, that amazon servers are throttling my ISP's network traffic during prime time USA(~8pm CST). Completely shit thing to do, I mean, what's the point of my gigabit internet if it is throttled down to dial-up speeds w/ huge packet loss? I think we'll be seeing more of this in the future.

For now I am avoiding it with the VPN, but I don't want to run the vpn all the time, and it should not be neccessary. Not sure who to contact about the problem. Anet customer service was completely useless on the subject. Perhaps I could contact my ISP....