I am having high latency/ping in games

[Ken blank]

I have been miserably lagging lately in games lately. For example when i play BF4 i will have CMD pinging the server for the game while i am playing. It constantly jumps from my average of 40ms to 1500-4000ms. I am on wireless but it has never been an issue until the last month or so. Ideas please. Feel free to ask about tracerouting or my hardware and so on. I appreciate the look.

 

[Ken blank]

Sad to but the ping spikes do occur going to the router. So now to see if it is my computers or the routers fault.

 

[Ken blank]

My router runs at an average of 1ms and it jumps to 3000 in BF4

 

[bill001g]

Try to use another machine and ping the router and see if that machine also see a increase when you are seeing errors on your game machine. If it does not then it is something with the software on the pc causing issues. I have seen people say they change the video resolution settings and it magically fixes the ping times. Video resolution has nothing at all to do with the network delays but I have seen multiple people report this so there must be something. Not saying it is your issue it just that it can be pretty much anything when you are talking software on a machine causing issues.

If the problem occurs on a completely different machine then something is overloading the router. This one too is almost impossible to find because the router manufacture have few if any screens that let you see things like memory or cpu usage. In these cases it is best to try to load newer factory firmware or maybe try third party stuff like dd-wrt if your router supports it. Pretty much you are hoping to get lucky and whatever bug is causing your problem is not in other firmware.

 

[Ken blank]

I pinged my router from my computer and my Ipad at the same time while playing BF4. And yes they USUALLY spiked from 1ms to 3000ms together. So what does this mean...

 

[bill001g]

means the router has a issue. All you can try to do is try different firmware. You of course want to disable any QoS or stuff but it tend to be almost impossible to guess when router act up.

 

[Ken blank]

Qos is always off. Also linksys dropped support for my router completely. Sorry for the absence I wasnt home!

 

[boryahjasper]

I would suggest, if possible, to purchase a new good quality router and try if it's better.

Make sure 100% that you buy from a store that accepts returns on open merchandise, without charging a restocking fee or any kind of fee.

Routers are often sensitive, and you can never predict when they'll stop working.

Good luck!

 

[Ken blank]

any suggestions on routers preferably under $100. Also we have no AC devices so only N is needed. Lastly when in use we do have at least 15 devices connected if everyone is home.

When I was testing I was alone with 1-2 devices.

 

[Ken blank]

Yet again thank you for your time!

 

[sla70r]

Can you hook up your computer directly to your internet (wired directly to the provided internet box ) and see if it eliminates the spikes ?

 

[Ken blank]

No sadly I cannot do that.

 

[Ken blank]

Yes I found out the router was the issue. I went out an bought an ASUS RT-AC56R router. Thank You for the time!

The old router was overloading.

 

[boryahjasper]

Congrats!