Horrible latency when playing games

[Haphazardz]

I moved into an apartment without an ethernet port a couple months ago and I have been dealing with weird connection problems. While surfing the internet, I have an average ping to google around 2-6ms, running cmd and pinging 8.8.8.8 while watching youtube videos and netflix barely effects the ping. Sometimes when I try to play a game like Rainbow Six Siege, the ping will skyrocket to 2000ms and have about 1/4 packet loss. Other times my ping will stay around 50-100ms but still vary wildly. I have tried different wifi cards, different networks, changing settings. It seems to only be effected when the game is in frame, while alt+tabbed, the ping immediately drops to normal. This makes no sense to me since im still pinging google. I honestly have no idea what is wrong, I always rubberband when playing and have some amount of packet loss but only when playing. If anybody has any suggestions it would help a ton.

 

[nigelivey]

You are on a wireless connection.........A standard ping sends a 56byte packet, tiny, tests the route not the bandwidth, to a localised DNS server. During a game what bandwidth is being used and where is the game server? There are too many variables here? Have done a channel scan to see if you are broadcasting wireless on a congested channel??

 

[bill001g]

So if I read correctly what you have is a constant ping running in a background window. When you run anything but the game even things like youtube you see no issues. When the game is running the ping in the background window increases but goes to normal as soon as you stop.

That sound more like some strange game issue. I have seen people claim they fix network issues changing video setting. Does not make sense really but if the game is somehow compromises the machines performance I guess it could have some effect.

If you have a second device run ping on that to see if it is only the machines internet connection or it a real network issue.

The main difference between a game and other applications is a game also uses constant upload bandwidth. It is not a lot but it needs constant quality. Not sure what to suggest to simulate that. Maybe one of the free cloud stroage things, upload some junk files but limit the upload speed to say 1mbit/sec since that is about what a game uses.

Still it is unfortunate that your only option is wifi, online games really hate wifi at times.

 

[Haphazardz]

So if I read correctly what you have is a constant ping running in a background window. When you run anything but the game even things like youtube you see no issues. When the game is running the ping in the background window increases but goes to normal as soon as you stop.

That sound more like some strange game issue. I have seen people claim they fix network issues changing video setting. Does not make sense really but if the game is somehow compromises the machines performance I guess it could have some effect.

If you have a second device run ping on that to see if it is only the machines internet connection or it a real network issue.

The main difference between a game and other applications is a game also uses constant upload bandwidth. It is not a lot but it needs constant quality. Not sure what to suggest to simulate that. Maybe one of the free cloud stroage things, upload some junk files but limit the upload speed to say 1mbit/sec since that is about what a game uses.

Still it is unfortunate that your only option is wifi, online games really hate wifi at times.

So I decided to look into changing the video settings, and I noticed that dropping all of the settings greatly reduced my lag. So I ended up turning down my overclock on my gpu and now everything works perfectly. I think it is a hardware problem with my motherboard not working that well because I have had problems with it before.