Hi all,
First, some background. I live in a basement suite and I use the same internet (provided by Videotron) as the people living upstairs. The wifi signal was quite poor in the basement, so I set up my router (Asus RT-AC1900P) to act as a relay, then connected my devices to that wifi signal instead and wired my PC directly to the router. For the first few days, things were fantastic, I was getting a stable ~30ms ping in games and I had download speeds of around 10mb/s. Yesterday, however, my ping became very unstable. It would hover at ~90ms, drop to 40ms and then skyrocket to well over 300ms. The only factor I am aware of that changed from when things were working perfectly was one extra person moved into the house above, but I can't imagine that's the issue as my down/upload speeds (and ping during speed tests) has remained unchanged and stable.
Here are some additional fixes I've tried:
-Reboot PC/router. The 2nd router reboot seemed to lower my ping to double-digits, but it bounces around from 20ms to 90ms and things are still very jerky and unstable in-game.
-Uninstall/reinstall ethernet driver.
-Tracert to Google, but I couldn't find any consistent culprits.
-Ensuring I'm in the correct server region for games.
I assume the next steps would be prioritizing my PC on the network or contacting the ISP, but before I do so, I just wanted to make sure there isn't anything I may have missed. Heck, maybe I just have to wait a few days and the problem will resolve itself, but who knows. I'm happy to answer any questions, and I appreciate the help!
First, some background. I live in a basement suite and I use the same internet (provided by Videotron) as the people living upstairs. The wifi signal was quite poor in the basement, so I set up my router (Asus RT-AC1900P) to act as a relay, then connected my devices to that wifi signal instead and wired my PC directly to the router. For the first few days, things were fantastic, I was getting a stable ~30ms ping in games and I had download speeds of around 10mb/s. Yesterday, however, my ping became very unstable. It would hover at ~90ms, drop to 40ms and then skyrocket to well over 300ms. The only factor I am aware of that changed from when things were working perfectly was one extra person moved into the house above, but I can't imagine that's the issue as my down/upload speeds (and ping during speed tests) has remained unchanged and stable.
Here are some additional fixes I've tried:
-Reboot PC/router. The 2nd router reboot seemed to lower my ping to double-digits, but it bounces around from 20ms to 90ms and things are still very jerky and unstable in-game.
-Uninstall/reinstall ethernet driver.
-Tracert to Google, but I couldn't find any consistent culprits.
-Ensuring I'm in the correct server region for games.
I assume the next steps would be prioritizing my PC on the network or contacting the ISP, but before I do so, I just wanted to make sure there isn't anything I may have missed. Heck, maybe I just have to wait a few days and the problem will resolve itself, but who knows. I'm happy to answer any questions, and I appreciate the help!