for about a month now every 3-5ish minutes my ping will spike to ~350 ping for 4 seconds and then go back to normal.
this is persistent every couple of minutes and does it all day and night, time doesn't matter.
my internet is not the best but I really cant find a rhyme or reason for something so consistent to be happening. this is the only ethernet connection in the house and everything else is connected to wifi, disabling wifi doesn't do anything to resolve it. there are no programs running that could be causing it and I cant think of any other reason why it would be happening, I'm just about to pull my hair out over it.
I'm not getting my hopes up for some miracle cure but some kinda guidance as to what may possibly be causing it would be helpful
for about a month now every 3-5ish minutes my ping will spike to ~350 ping for 4 seconds and then go back to normal.
this is persistent every couple of minutes and does it all day and night, time doesn't matter.
my internet is not the best but I really cant find a rhyme or reason for something so consistent to be happening. this is the only ethernet connection in the house and everything else is connected to wifi, disabling wifi doesn't do anything to resolve it. there are no programs running that could be causing it and I cant think of any other reason why it would be happening, I'm just about to pull my hair out over it.
I'm not getting my hopes up for some miracle cure but some kinda guidance as to what may possibly be causing it would be helpful
I live around Pittsburgh and I've been having the same exact problem with Xfinity. At first they said it was a router issue and were going to send out a tech. An hour before the tech came they called and said it was a local service issue and that they were cancelling the tech. The problem went away for a day or two then resumed. Im having another tech come out Monday with a new router and ill LYK if that solves the issue. Xfinity has god awful routers (I've had mine replaced 4+ times) so its possible that's the issue even if the symptoms arent right. I am a fan of p2p and other types of behaviors not endorsed by my ISP, so I'm under the impression I might just be getting throttled. LMK what you're ISP is and whether you're service is actually dropping according to your ISP.
I live around Pittsburgh and I've been having the same exact problem with Xfinity. At first they said it was a router issue and were going to send out a tech. An hour before the tech came they called and said it was a local service issue and that they were cancelling the tech. The problem went away for a day or two then resumed. Im having another tech come out Monday with a new router and ill LYK if that solves the issue. Xfinity has god awful routers (I've had mine replaced 4+ times) so its possible that's the issue even if the symptoms arent right. I am a fan of p2p and other types of behaviors not endorsed by my ISP, so I'm under the impression I might just be getting throttled. LMK what you're ISP is and whether you're service is actually dropping according to your ISP.
Run a WinMRT to a known good server (e.g. 8.8.8.8) and make a screenshot of the results after you've experience a ping spike.
Run a [url=http://winmtr.net/download-winmtr/]WinMRT[/url] to a known good server (e.g. 8.8.8.8) and make a screenshot of the results after you've experience a ping spike.
@Arie
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Don't leak your IP. Blur out the 3rd hostname.
Don't leak your IP. Blur out the 3rd hostname.
You seem to have two routers, which is undesirable, but not the problem here. You already have a ping spike to the first hop outside of your own network (3), so I'm guessing you're suffering from bufferbloat due to a congested connection.
The DSLReports speedtest (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest) will tell you how much (looks like it will be at least 300ms).
There are two possible solutions:
1. Replace your two routers with 1 good one that can do SQM-QoS. This way you'll never have to worry about what others (or your own PC) decides to do while gaming.
2. Stop whatever is causing your connection to get congested. This might lead to fun discussions with family members or house mates to make them stop downloading, youtubing, netflix when you game.
You seem to have two routers, which is undesirable, but not the problem here. You already have a ping spike to the first hop outside of your own network (3), so I'm guessing you're suffering from bufferbloat due to a congested connection.
The DSLReports speedtest (http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest) will tell you how much (looks like it will be at least 300ms).
There are two possible solutions:
1. Replace your two routers with 1 good one that can do SQM-QoS. This way you'll never have to worry about what others (or your own PC) decides to do while gaming.
2. Stop whatever is causing your connection to get congested. This might lead to fun discussions with family members or house mates to make them stop downloading, youtubing, netflix when you game.