Internet is just all around messy! help me fix my router

[DiamondxCrafting]

So I get a lot of jitter and the bufferbloat for download/upload is quite high most of the time, when playing csgo I got netgraph on and every like 15 seconds the loss would go up to like 40%-60% and come back down

I think it's my router, are there any settings that I could change to fix this issue?
router: DSL-2740U Firmware Version: ME_1.04

Thanks

 

[Herc08]

Have you tried resetting your router? does this act as a model as well?

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

Have you tried resetting your router? does this act as a model as well?

I have tried reseting my router, btw it's new I just got it a few days ago
"Does this act as a model as well" what do you mean?

 

[Herc08]

I'm sorry, I meant modem. Is there a phone line connected to it? Also, did you buy this, or get it from your service provider?

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

I'm sorry, I meant modem. Is there a phone line connected to it? Also, did you buy this, or get it from your service provider?

there is no modem, I have adsl internet; I bought this after the one from my service provider broke

However I did set it up correctly and after that I called them and followed their steps just incase to make sure I didn't mess up and everything was fine

 

[Herc08]

Before you replaced it, did you notice the same effects?

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

Before you replaced it, did you notice the same effects?

before it broke, no it was fine

 

[Herc08]

Before you replaced it, did you notice the same effects?

before it broke, no it was fine

It could be the router. It also could be the signal. Have you call them to test it out? However, when the previous one broke, why didn't the company replace it?

 

[Sedivy]

Double check that correcting directly to your line (bypassing the router) and going through the router gives you the same test results. For tests, I'm assuming you've set it so that servers can ping it? Otherwise parts of the test won't apply.
As for the traffic, are you sharing a your router with others in your home? Is there a lot of other traffic beside yours in other words? If this is the case, I think under advanced->qos engine is where you'd prioritize your games or your voice chat over all other traffic.

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

Before you replaced it, did you notice the same effects?

before it broke, no it was fine

It could be the router. It also could be the signal. Have you call them to test it out? However, when the previous one broke, why didn't the company replace it?

long story short, my isp is crap so I bought the router myself
prior to buying this router when my old one broke, I'd called them to come and try to fix it or whatever they fancy and literally all they did was sit there for like 30 mins on the phone and left

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

Double check that correcting directly to your line (bypassing the router) and going through the router gives you the same test results. For tests, I'm assuming you've set it so that servers can ping it? Otherwise parts of the test won't apply.
As for the traffic, are you sharing a your router with others in your home? Is there a lot of other traffic beside yours in other words? If this is the case, I think under advanced->qos engine is where you'd prioritize your games or your voice chat over all other traffic.

ELIM5 please? I understood nothing from the first paragraph

There is IP QoS and it is nothing like you explained it so I dont think it's the same thing. However, I could enable IGMP if that does anything

EDIT: for some reason I didnt read this part: "are you sharing a your router with others in your home? Is there a lot of other traffic beside yours in other words? " usually yes, but atm am the only one and it's the same problem

 

[Sedivy]

Ok so for the first part, lets say you run one of the numerous speed/quality tests for your internet line. By default routers are set to invisible so that others can't ping them, for security purposes, and the testing servers kind of need it in order to determine how good your line is. Explained in a bit more detail here:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/962
On mine, in order to become ping-able, you enable WAN ping response. On mine that's under Advanced->Advanced Network. Not sure where it would be on yours.
I wouldn't touch IGMP. Not sure what it is. QoS is only important if there's lots of traffic at your home, (others watching netflix, browsing, streaming) and you're trying to prioritize your voice chat over everything else. Typically I don't touch this either as I have no need to and I'm assuming for testing purposes, neither do you (hopefully whoever else is using your connection isn't doing so when you're testing it). Only look into it if others on your network take up significant portion of its traffic.

 

[DiamondxCrafting]

Ok so for the first part, lets say you run one of the numerous speed/quality tests for your internet line. By default routers are set to invisible so that others can't ping them, for security purposes, and the testing servers kind of need it in order to determine how good your line is. Explained in a bit more detail here:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/962
On mine, in order to become ping-able, you enable WAN ping response. On mine that's under Advanced->Advanced Network. Not sure where it would be on yours.
I wouldn't touch IGMP. Not sure what it is. QoS is only important if there's lots of traffic at your home, (others watching netflix, browsing, streaming) and you're trying to prioritize your voice chat over everything else. Typically I don't touch this either as I have no need to and I'm assuming for testing purposes, neither do you (hopefully whoever else is using your connection isn't doing so when you're testing it). Only look into it if others on your network take up significant portion of its traffic.

I'm quite certain my router can be pinged, even though I cant find that option anywhere in my router's page

but isn't that irrelevant anyways? because the problem isnt just in the result of these online speedtests, also in games as i mentioned like csgo and generally it's just sluggish

 

[Sedivy]

For games, sure it's irrelevant. But right now you don't actually now whether it's the problem in your router, your connection to the game server or something entirely unrelated on your computer or your network that's hogging your connection. So when you run a test and see packet loss, you don't know if that's cause your router is not configured for ping so it's reporting errouneous packet loss, or if it's actually that your connection is bad.