[SOLVED] My Ping spikes every other second

[Bhelml3]

Currently, I experience spiking ping every other second even if I am the only one on wifi. The spikes go from about 20ms to 900ms. This happens in all games I play and for many other programs. What could I do to improve or fix this issue?

 

[Grobe]

Does other devices connected to wifi also get affected by this? Does it help if you use a cable instead?

 

[Bhelml3]

Other devices get affected but not as severe. I do use an ethernet cable.

 

[Grobe]

I do use an ethernet cable.

Have you disabled wifi when on cable ?

 

[bill001g]

If you get ping spikes on a ethenet cable it is not likely a wifi problem.....unless of course you are actually using wifi when you think you are using ethernet. So as mentioned above disable the wifi in your machine do you are really sure.

Ethernet cables almost never get ping spikes. They can get data loss but the cable itself can not random delay data, it travels at some fixed percentage of the speed of light. Any delay would be the machine or the router not the cable itself.

So run tracert to some IP like 8.8.8.8

Next open a number of cmd windows and leave ping commends run to hop 1 and hop2 and any other you want. Hop 1 is your router and you should always see consistent low numbers. Hop2 is normally the ISP router that connects to your house. Generally if you see ping spikes rather than data loss it is because of over utilization . You need to be sure you are not over using the bandwidth, you need to worry about up and down. It is pretty easy to over use a small internet connection say 25mbps but rather hard to over use a 200mbps.