High ping when others use internet

ChloricDread29

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Whenever I try and play fortnite, it runs fine but as soon as someone uses the internet at all, even just going on their phone, my ping goes to from 20 to 100 - 1100, making it unplayable. I’m using ethernet and my router is a BT Smart Hub. My download speed is around 6mbs which is the best I can get where I live :( . Is there anyway I can fix this problem?
 
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fq_codel can keep latency low at a cost of bandwidth depending on your quality.
it puts all traffic into a flow and services them round robin. it measures latency in each flow and small ones will be low latency. large flows will be buffered. gaming is about 25Kbs which will be low. you can get away with no up shaping if it's not stable enough to limit.

https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/
http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/fixing-bufferbloat-on-comcasts-blast.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-g2P3R84dw

$50 edge router x, ddwrt, openwrt, and ipfire have it. ERX can handle 100Mbs. ddwrt,openwrt will likely be the same or less. ipfire can handle multigig. ERX and ipfire don't have wifi. you will need an access point.
fq_codel can keep latency low at a cost of bandwidth depending on your quality.
it puts all traffic into a flow and services them round robin. it measures latency in each flow and small ones will be low latency. large flows will be buffered. gaming is about 25Kbs which will be low. you can get away with no up shaping if it's not stable enough to limit.

https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/
http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/fixing-bufferbloat-on-comcasts-blast.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-g2P3R84dw

$50 edge router x, ddwrt, openwrt, and ipfire have it. ERX can handle 100Mbs. ddwrt,openwrt will likely be the same or less. ipfire can handle multigig. ERX and ipfire don't have wifi. you will need an access point.
 
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