My internet as it is currently set up now, used to work just fine. Then every once in awhile it would have bad days where I would get horrible lag on every game I played. Then it became every other day was a bad day. Now it's to the point where basically every single day is a bad day I can no longer play games online except for maybe one day per month. My question is, what causes this and how do I fix it?
I know you guys are all going to want a list of specs and information about my internet and router and everything although it really shouldn't matter because like I said my current setup used to work just fine but I'll give it to you anyways just to prevent us from wasting time.
The lag occurs on all games and all devices, PC laptop, multiple PlayStations, all of which dont lag when I take them to someone else's house.
I have tried both wired connection and wireless connection, multiple devices connected, and only one device connected at a time none of these changed the lag at all.
I have tried messing with settings including static IP, DNS, MTU on all of my devices.
I have tried two different routers both of which used to work just fine and now neither of them works well. On both of those routers I have set up a DMZ, I've done port forwarding, and various other things that I found on the internet that are supposed to help fix packet loss / lag nothing fixed it. The router given to me by my ISP is a mikrotik router it used to work fine now it doesn't. The other router is a trendnet which I purchased myself, it used to work fine now it doesn't.
Yes I have tried the obvious resetting your router resetting your PlayStation, resetting your PC. checking all the ports and cables making sure nothing's damaged, everything is good there.
Some other things that may be important to note are; I lag the same way in every game, it's a quick freeze and teleport every 4 seconds in every game I play (sounds like packet loss but could just be the Ping spiking). Also long before these issues started happening I used to get minor versions of this at certain times of the night usually usually worse around 9 p.m. every night. But now it's like it's 9 p.m. at night all the time and the lag is much worse than before.
Basically what I'm looking for is if any of you know what could be causing this and how I could fix it. If not I'm really just trying to confirm with you and myself that this is my isp fault and this is not on my end because like I've said my devices work at other peoples houses, it's every single game, it's all the time, and it used to all work.
Oh and one more thing, my type of Internet is called airnet I have an antenna mounted on the side of my house pointed to another antenna it works kind of like satellite but the satellites on the ground instead of in space. The antenna mounted on my house connects to another antenna mounted on a barn silo. I know this sounds bad but keep in mind that it used to work.
I know you guys are all going to want a list of specs and information about my internet and router and everything although it really shouldn't matter because like I said my current setup used to work just fine but I'll give it to you anyways just to prevent us from wasting time.
The lag occurs on all games and all devices, PC laptop, multiple PlayStations, all of which dont lag when I take them to someone else's house.
I have tried both wired connection and wireless connection, multiple devices connected, and only one device connected at a time none of these changed the lag at all.
I have tried messing with settings including static IP, DNS, MTU on all of my devices.
I have tried two different routers both of which used to work just fine and now neither of them works well. On both of those routers I have set up a DMZ, I've done port forwarding, and various other things that I found on the internet that are supposed to help fix packet loss / lag nothing fixed it. The router given to me by my ISP is a mikrotik router it used to work fine now it doesn't. The other router is a trendnet which I purchased myself, it used to work fine now it doesn't.
Yes I have tried the obvious resetting your router resetting your PlayStation, resetting your PC. checking all the ports and cables making sure nothing's damaged, everything is good there.
Some other things that may be important to note are; I lag the same way in every game, it's a quick freeze and teleport every 4 seconds in every game I play (sounds like packet loss but could just be the Ping spiking). Also long before these issues started happening I used to get minor versions of this at certain times of the night usually usually worse around 9 p.m. every night. But now it's like it's 9 p.m. at night all the time and the lag is much worse than before.
Basically what I'm looking for is if any of you know what could be causing this and how I could fix it. If not I'm really just trying to confirm with you and myself that this is my isp fault and this is not on my end because like I've said my devices work at other peoples houses, it's every single game, it's all the time, and it used to all work.
Oh and one more thing, my type of Internet is called airnet I have an antenna mounted on the side of my house pointed to another antenna it works kind of like satellite but the satellites on the ground instead of in space. The antenna mounted on my house connects to another antenna mounted on a barn silo. I know this sounds bad but keep in mind that it used to work.
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