Hello. I pay for 100/100 mb net and I play alot of pc games. My connection is through a router and wired connection to my desktop. Around 10 pm normally I get crazy lag spike were for the next 2 hours normally, trying to play multiplayer games are impossible! Even though i still have internet, trying just to watch a simple youtube video takes forever to load :/ Please help.
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Lag spike at 10 pm
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derekullo
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There are many things that can trigger lag at a particular time of day.
1. Pirating Neighbor
Are you sure your wireless is secure?
Someone may be trying to torrent movies / pirating other stuff.
Some bit-torrenting clients are able to schedule downloads for a certain time.
They may have it scheduled from 10pm till some time in the morning thinking you would be sleeping and wouldn't notice.
2. Virus Scans
You may have a virus scan scheduled to happen at 10pm.
A virus scanner can use 100% of your cpu to scan files which would make your game lag, both in fps and actual latency.
3. High ISP Usage
Its possible your ISP could simply be overloaded at this time.
Use a site like http://www.speedtest.net/ to get an unbiased report of your speed and latency when the issue is happening, 10:15 or so, and at 8pm when the issue supposedly is not happening.
1. Pirating Neighbor
Are you sure your wireless is secure?
Someone may be trying to torrent movies / pirating other stuff.
Some bit-torrenting clients are able to schedule downloads for a certain time.
They may have it scheduled from 10pm till some time in the morning thinking you would be sleeping and wouldn't notice.
2. Virus Scans
You may have a virus scan scheduled to happen at 10pm.
A virus scanner can use 100% of your cpu to scan files which would make your game lag, both in fps and actual latency.
3. High ISP Usage
Its possible your ISP could simply be overloaded at this time.
Use a site like http://www.speedtest.net/ to get an unbiased report of your speed and latency when the issue is happening, 10:15 or so, and at 8pm when the issue supposedly is not happening.
derekullo
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Most viruses aren't discriminate about when they deliver their payloads.
Some of the older ones choose certain dates like 7/7/2007 to deliver the payload not like 10pm although nothing stops one from being coded to do so.
Barring a 10pm lag virus, I would run the applet on speedtest.net and see what happens.
Both now and after 10pm to see if there is a clear difference in speed and latency.
You could then present those reports to your ISP.
Although most likely you will get some response like:
"We are aware of abnormally high usage / low bandwidth / crazy high latency of our network from 10pm - 6am and are we working diligently to remedy the situation."
Assuming the ISP is the issue.
Some of the older ones choose certain dates like 7/7/2007 to deliver the payload not like 10pm although nothing stops one from being coded to do so.
Barring a 10pm lag virus, I would run the applet on speedtest.net and see what happens.
Both now and after 10pm to see if there is a clear difference in speed and latency.
You could then present those reports to your ISP.
Although most likely you will get some response like:
"We are aware of abnormally high usage / low bandwidth / crazy high latency of our network from 10pm - 6am and are we working diligently to remedy the situation."
Assuming the ISP is the issue.
A ran a test on the site and it gave me results like 13ms, which is like 57ms ingame, and 11mbs and i get 1.5-2.5mbs. This is when my internet is at it's peak at normal days..
Is that just false info from the website, or am i not using my net correctly, to get as much usage out of it?
Speed isn't the most important factor when doing time sensitive stuff online. You want line quality. Something to test your ping, jitter, packet loss.
Try:
http://www.dslreports.com/tools (choose line quality-ping test or ping test-real time). Those test quality of lines for VoIP phones, which is about the same quality you want for skype/vent/TS/gaming.
Try:
http://www.dslreports.com/tools (choose line quality-ping test or ping test-real time). Those test quality of lines for VoIP phones, which is about the same quality you want for skype/vent/TS/gaming.
derekullo
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True but downloading a youtube video is not time sensitive.
If a youtube video refuses to download then it isn't that his latency is bad it is that his bandwidth is low or that something is interfering with the connection causing either lower speeds or dropped packets.
The reason why the latency the site reported was low is due to the speedtest.net site picking a site much closer to your house than the other sites you are trying to access.
I get about 17ms latency to a local speedtest site 90 miles away, but i get about 40ms latency to a World of Warcraft server in Chicago about 900 miles away.
You getting a 13ms latency is a good sign.
It shows the connection averages about 13 ms between your building and the much closer speedtest site.
What are your download and upload speeds that it shown on speedtest.net and how much are you paying for?
http://www.dslreports.com/tools/pingtest
http://www.dslreports.com/tools
The above links may be of some use after this, but I like to establish that the download and upload speeds are within spec before running line quality tools
No point having a super clean line if they are hypothetically limiting you to 1.5 megabits after 10pm.
PING
13 ms
DOWNLOAD
11.46 Mbps
UPLOAD
38.49 Mbps "Site information" Speedtest
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What I get on Chrome, Blizzard and Steam
PING
57 ms
DOWNLOAD
2.2 Mbps
And I am paying 250 Danish Krones which is approx 40$ for the 100/100 Mbit
Also just found out i have a program which is called killer network manager, maybe the app can help? I think it was installed when i bought the dekstop
derekullo
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If you are paying for 100 megabits download and 100 megabits upload I would report your 11 megabit download and 38 megabit upload to your ISP.
This by itself is way less than you should be getting even if it isn't after 10pm.
This by itself is way less than you should be getting even if it isn't after 10pm.
Yeah, I am switching to something called fiber network which is network coming through valve's in the ground, from a station. There is a direct connection to the company, so there should no problems! Thank you anyways for taking your time to help me means alot!
Oh sorry I didn't see he was talking about youtube streaming. I'd have said run the stream tests then but it's odd he's getting issues at all considering buffering unless..well unless really high res and if this is the case you're better off with fibre long term, just don't let your isp fleece you for the access.
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