Question Discord + Games are lagging, but only at a specific time of night ?

[Pil2t]

Hello,

This has been happening to me for a few months now where my ping becomes extremely unstable between the rough times of 7:30pm to 11pm - 11:30pm. My Discord network latency spikes goes from it's normal stable low 20's to 150+ usually at the average of 70ms. The main problem that I see with this affecting my Discord is that the Outbound packet loss rate is 0.0%.

My main game is Overwatch 2 but it's not only Overwatch 2, it's every game but it doesn't seem to affect my YouTube, Twitter etc.

I've called my ISP provider a few times and they've said that they see no problems with the network and that they think it's having a lot of devices connected to the network.

This could be argued as a possibility but this has never happened in years and we haven't added really any new devices. And I always switch my phone's internet off when I'm at my PC to try to counteract the problem (it doesn't help at all).

I do use Ethernet and I looked at another reddit post today saying that when someone had turned off ipv6 that it helped their ping. I tried turning it off manually on my PC and found out that it was already disabled, therefore I enabled it today to see if this would fix the issue, and it has arguably been worse.

Does anyone have any possible suggestions or solutions to this problem?

Thanks for taking the time to read this

 

[rgd1101]

unless you have a dedicated line, it is shared with other people, not just your own

 

[Pil2t]

I do have Ethernet but my internet is shared with my family. It still happens during this time of night when only my device is connected or I am home alone, not sure why and how I can fix it.

Since this problem only came about near last October and I've never had this issue before.

 

[rgd1101]

no dedicated line directly from the isp. like a high end business line.

 

[Moonstick2]

I've called my ISP provider a few times and they've said that they see no problems with the network and that they think it's having a lot of devices connected to the network.

no dedicated line directly from the isp. like a high end business line.

Your network or just the network in general?

Unless you've got a dedicated line from your computer directly to the game sever, there's all kinds of traffic your connection has to share bandwidth with. Given the time of day it seems very likely it's a heavy load on the gaming servers, although strange if you're seeing it on all games on various servers.

It might be possible that your ISP has introduced throttling for Discord and gaming connections at peak times - I can imagine they wouldn't be very forthcoming about if they were. You could try ringing them again and asking directly if they ever apply any throttling in these sorts of situations. Do you know somebody using a different ISP that you could take your computer to to try it there? Or even try connecting via your phone hotspot maybe, anything that you think might give you a better latency than you're getting now - not as a solution, but to try and determine if it's your ISP or something else.

 

[Pil2t]

I'll ring up for like the 4th or 5th time about this and I'll make sure to ask about throbbing with gaming and Discord.

I sadly don't know anyone near me using a different ISP that could use my computer.

I haven't tried connecting VIA hotspot on my phone yet but from what I'm noticing, it really only seems like Discord and Video Games are lagging for me only. No one else in my household says that they are experiencing these issues.

I might even try to get some person that works around that kind of internet ping issue area to give me their thoughts and opinions on the matter.

Thank you for replying!

Your network or just the network in general?

Unless you've got a dedicated line from your computer directly to the game sever, there's all kinds of traffic your connection has to share bandwidth with. Given the time of day it seems very likely it's a heavy load on the gaming servers, although strange if you're seeing it on all games on various servers.

It might be possible that your ISP has introduced throttling for Discord and gaming connections at peak times - I can imagine they wouldn't be very forthcoming about if they were. You could try ringing them again and asking directly if they ever apply any throttling in these sorts of situations. Do you know somebody using a different ISP that you could take your computer to to try it there? Or even try connecting via your phone hotspot maybe, anything that you think might give you a better latency than you're getting now - not as a solution, but to try and determine if it's your ISP or something else.