Hello everyone,
I started to play Valorant and realized that something is wrong with my home network since I suffer from severe ping spikes and packet loss.
My setup:
Zyxel VMG1312-B30A as modem in bridge mode with a router running OpenWRT behind it.
My gaming PC is connected via LAN. I changed every cable, tried to reset settings on every device and ran tests with different settings (especially QoS/SQM). Nothing seemed to be able to fix this. Then I tried to connect my gaming PC directly to the Zyxel Modem/Router and voilà - the issues are gone. I thought that I could just use the router for all other (Wifi) devices in my home and have the PC hooked up to the modem. But - and this is why I'm posting here - I realized that the network problems are present as soon as the router runs, so it looks like there's some kind of intereference going on ?
Modem and router are plugged into two different sockets and the issues persist even when I deactivate wifi and remove every LAN cable from the router so that it draws no bandwith. Do you have any idea what might be happening here? Maybe some crappy domestic wiring?
I started to play Valorant and realized that something is wrong with my home network since I suffer from severe ping spikes and packet loss.
My setup:
Zyxel VMG1312-B30A as modem in bridge mode with a router running OpenWRT behind it.
My gaming PC is connected via LAN. I changed every cable, tried to reset settings on every device and ran tests with different settings (especially QoS/SQM). Nothing seemed to be able to fix this. Then I tried to connect my gaming PC directly to the Zyxel Modem/Router and voilà - the issues are gone. I thought that I could just use the router for all other (Wifi) devices in my home and have the PC hooked up to the modem. But - and this is why I'm posting here - I realized that the network problems are present as soon as the router runs, so it looks like there's some kind of intereference going on ?
Modem and router are plugged into two different sockets and the issues persist even when I deactivate wifi and remove every LAN cable from the router so that it draws no bandwith. Do you have any idea what might be happening here? Maybe some crappy domestic wiring?
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