Question Bad lag spikes ?

[hamsterwifiuser]

I've been getting horrendous lag spikes every time launch any game, which makes it a horrible experience and I'm looking for a fix. I did ping x.x.x.x -t and this is the result:

It looks like theres something wrong, and I can't figure it out

 

[helpstar]

do offline games have the same issue or not?
are you using ethernet cable to router/modem or wi-fi?
try different ethernet cable and restart modem/router
firmware of router and modem up to date?

bios up to date of the motherboard?

which hardware are you using?
which games?

drivers up to date? especially network and chipset

3rd party firewall or anti virus software installed?

network connection set to private and not public?

hdd or ssd used?

Ask your isp if your internet is fine
uodate firmware of your router

 

[bill001g]

Since you have a a minimum of 1ms and a average of 3ms I am assuming you did a ping to your router IP. Since you posted this question on the wireless forum I will also assume that you are using wifi.

This is pretty much what you expect to see on wifi. Your average latency is very good and so it should work well....EXCEPT for online games.

Online games use the delay between packets to keep the client in sync with the server. You get very bad results when the latency is not extremely stable. This is a fundamental design inconsistency between how wifi works and how games network works. This is why you see them say never play online games on wifi. The wifi signal has to be almost perfect for it to work.

The spikes in the wifi are being caused by interfering signal both from inside and outside your house.

Test with a ethernet cable to be 100% sure it is not something else. If it is really a wifi issue there is very little you can do to fix it.

 

[hamsterwifiuser]

Since you have a a minimum of 1ms and a average of 3ms I am assuming you did a ping to your router IP. Since you posted this question on the wireless forum I will also assume that you are using wifi.

This is pretty much what you expect to see on wifi. Your average latency is very good and so it should work well....EXCEPT for online games.

Online games use the delay between packets to keep the client in sync with the server. You get very bad results when the latency is not extremely stable. This is a fundamental design inconsistency between how wifi works and how games network works. This is why you see them say never play online games on wifi. The wifi signal has to be almost perfect for it to work.

The spikes in the wifi are being caused by interfering signal both from inside and outside your house.

Test with a ethernet cable to be 100% sure it is not something else. If it is really a wifi issue there is very little you can do to fix it.

It never used to happen on Wi-Fi, started happening a year ago, It was consistent enough, but its getting worse over time. For example, when I started to get ping spikes, it was about every 4-5 minutes, but now it happens every few seconds. Even if Wi-Fi has a fundamental design inconsistency it used to be way better than it is for me now. I'm not positive but something seems to be degrading over time.

 

[bill001g]

In theory you might have a wifi chip going bad in your router or PC but that is unlikely. It is much more likely you just have one or more neighbors that are using more bandwidth than they did before on the same radio channels as you. Can even be some of those silly cars that have wifi for people in the car driving by your house and interfering.

The cause of the spikes is wifi between your router and pc detecting data that was damaged and can not be read and retransmitting the data. This retransmission takes time which is why you see random delays.