I'm using an ASUS RT-AC1200 router and both my wife and I now are starting to have problems with our internet.
My wife started having problems with her internet about 2 years ago. But, I never did anything or bothered trying to fix her problem until about last summer. I bought her a brand new USB wireless card and she says that her internet was a lot faster (Her old adapter was lucky if it gave her 10 MB/s internet even though I was paying for over 100 MB/s. After I upgraded her wireless adapter from the stoneage shes now getting around 120MB/s for internet and most of my other wireless devices (TV,Tablet,Cellphone) are getting between 60 and 80. But, regardless getting her internet speeds under control she's still been experiencing pretty high lag and latencies (despite the game saying her connection is fine) and she keeps getting disconnected from her games every 30-35 minutes or so.
I mean, every ping or internet stability test that I've tried put our latency at over 200 ms for BOTH of our computers. Sometimes her latency is over 2,000 ms Although since mine is a wired connection It's like 40 ms less. The test I ran on my computer my ms never went over 200. But, anything over 50 ms is completely unacceptable. There's something wrong with our internet but I'm stumped as hell as to how or why except that, our router is the culprit. I did after all, buy it over 5 years ago and it's been off of warranty for over a year.
But, I've tried everything I've tried resetting my modem and internet/ nothing. I've tried flushing our DNS/ nothing. I've tried updating our firmware and that fixed it a little bit but I'm still getting high latencies.
The stupid thing is though? When we log into WoW it says our latency is under 30 at all times. Yet, she was getting massive lag and disconnection issues. Granted her computer is really old and only her video card is not from the stone age but she never had quite bad problems years and years before. It's either that blizzard is reporting the latency issues wrong or something else is going on here. Like, maybe I have to get a new router and spend almost 300 bucks again. I just kind of want to try everything else before I spend the money because, I honestly cannot afford it. I just spent over a year and a half paying off an over $7,000 credit card debt. I'm down to about $1,500 now. I'm trying to make this router last until July (When I pay off my debt) but, I don't know if I can or if that's even the problem. I mean, the internet when I google is saying its an issue with my network or a firewall blocking somewhere.
But, I don't use firewalls and haven't in years and I've always completely turned off windows defender for years because it's a hunk of crap. Just about the only security software I use is Zemana antimalware and It's turned off most of the time I don't do scans on our computers and malware bytes. But neither of these programs block internet connection and they're off all the time So honestly? Dunno what to do.
My wife started having problems with her internet about 2 years ago. But, I never did anything or bothered trying to fix her problem until about last summer. I bought her a brand new USB wireless card and she says that her internet was a lot faster (Her old adapter was lucky if it gave her 10 MB/s internet even though I was paying for over 100 MB/s. After I upgraded her wireless adapter from the stoneage shes now getting around 120MB/s for internet and most of my other wireless devices (TV,Tablet,Cellphone) are getting between 60 and 80. But, regardless getting her internet speeds under control she's still been experiencing pretty high lag and latencies (despite the game saying her connection is fine) and she keeps getting disconnected from her games every 30-35 minutes or so.
I mean, every ping or internet stability test that I've tried put our latency at over 200 ms for BOTH of our computers. Sometimes her latency is over 2,000 ms Although since mine is a wired connection It's like 40 ms less. The test I ran on my computer my ms never went over 200. But, anything over 50 ms is completely unacceptable. There's something wrong with our internet but I'm stumped as hell as to how or why except that, our router is the culprit. I did after all, buy it over 5 years ago and it's been off of warranty for over a year.
But, I've tried everything I've tried resetting my modem and internet/ nothing. I've tried flushing our DNS/ nothing. I've tried updating our firmware and that fixed it a little bit but I'm still getting high latencies.
The stupid thing is though? When we log into WoW it says our latency is under 30 at all times. Yet, she was getting massive lag and disconnection issues. Granted her computer is really old and only her video card is not from the stone age but she never had quite bad problems years and years before. It's either that blizzard is reporting the latency issues wrong or something else is going on here. Like, maybe I have to get a new router and spend almost 300 bucks again. I just kind of want to try everything else before I spend the money because, I honestly cannot afford it. I just spent over a year and a half paying off an over $7,000 credit card debt. I'm down to about $1,500 now. I'm trying to make this router last until July (When I pay off my debt) but, I don't know if I can or if that's even the problem. I mean, the internet when I google is saying its an issue with my network or a firewall blocking somewhere.
But, I don't use firewalls and haven't in years and I've always completely turned off windows defender for years because it's a hunk of crap. Just about the only security software I use is Zemana antimalware and It's turned off most of the time I don't do scans on our computers and malware bytes. But neither of these programs block internet connection and they're off all the time So honestly? Dunno what to do.