For awhile now, 5-6 years, I’ve always dealt with random ping spikes on my PC throughout the day while gaming (it is a wired connection. They usually last 10-45 seconds (obviously unless someone is downloading a big file or whatever). Our ISP is TSC. While I have been able to get ahold of tech support while it’s happening they’ve always said it’s been on our end (aka our router). They’ve sent technicians out multiple times and have never found anything major (they’ve replaced the ends of cables and gave us a newer model of modem).
Fast forward to about 2 months ago.
I’m using a Netgear Nighthawk R7000p. I was doing some research one day and discovered QoS, after further research I decided to go ahead and turn this function off in the router. Now the ping spikes don’t happen AS often, but still do it frequently enough to be annoying.
I have a 50meg connection, we have one other desktop and 4 cell phones connected to the WiFi but other than scrolling through social media every now and then it’s not really being put under any tough strain with the phones. When the ping spikes happen I will go to every device to see if something is downloading and usually there never is.
I’m wondering if I need to try a different router? (We’ve already been through 2-3 routers over the years).
I’ve made sure the router has always been updated with the latest firmware.
It’s very frustrating having to constantly deal with it and I’m kind of running out of ideas.
does anyone have any tips or advice?
Fast forward to about 2 months ago.
I’m using a Netgear Nighthawk R7000p. I was doing some research one day and discovered QoS, after further research I decided to go ahead and turn this function off in the router. Now the ping spikes don’t happen AS often, but still do it frequently enough to be annoying.
I have a 50meg connection, we have one other desktop and 4 cell phones connected to the WiFi but other than scrolling through social media every now and then it’s not really being put under any tough strain with the phones. When the ping spikes happen I will go to every device to see if something is downloading and usually there never is.
I’m wondering if I need to try a different router? (We’ve already been through 2-3 routers over the years).
I’ve made sure the router has always been updated with the latest firmware.
It’s very frustrating having to constantly deal with it and I’m kind of running out of ideas.
does anyone have any tips or advice?