Audio Latency When Connected to Wifi

k3nobi

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I've had this issue occurring on and off ever since wifi service was upgraded. When connected to Wifi, any audio will intermittently make rumbling/tearing noises. These issues vanish when not connected to the Internet. I have no idea how to remedy this, sometimes it just comes and goes on its own. I run Windows 10.
 

k3nobi

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MERGED QUESTION
Question from k3nobi : "DPC Latency Being Caused by ndis.sys"

Lately, I've been having a lit of issues with audio latency caused by high DPC. Twice I've gone through a cycle of scanning for an issue, experiencing BSODs that prevented me from booting, then reinstalling windows. Most of the advice for this issue that I've seen (disabling the network adapter) works, but while I'm home for the holidays I have no access for Ethernet, so I kind of need to be connected wireless. Here are the things I've done so far:

Reinstalled windows: Twice, more out of necessity due to BSODs, which fixes the issue only temporarily
Reinstalled wireless driver: no fix
Malware sweep: no fix

Here are my LatencyMon results:
https://imgur.com/a/PyDrQAk?
https://imgur.com/gallery/VzdxQEl

Here are my specs:
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor
Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Team - Dark 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: Crucial - MX300 275GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Toshiba - P300 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Wireless Card: ASUS PCE-N15

Ndis.sys and dxgkrnl.sys seem to be the biggest offenders