Ping spikes every 3 mins in multiplayer games

[jamiehunterupperton]

This last week I've been having a problem with my internet, in games such as csgo and rocket league. so what happens is that i am playing a game and then every 3 mins i lag out and ping spikes to 300 ms. i am using power inline so ethernet to power to the router. any suggestions to help me?

 

[vapour]

1. check with your DNS
2. test internet speed
3. anti-virus/malwarebyte to see if any virus/malware
4. monitor processes in task manager

 

[jamiehunterupperton]

1. check with your DNS
2. test internet speed
3. anti-virus/malwarebyte to see if any virus/malware
4. monitor processes in task manager

https://imgur.com/vRiN0u8 . does this help?
i have done the anti-virus scan and my internet is fine

 

[bill001g]

Your last image you attached is kinda surprising. It does not show the problem you discuss since the maximum latency it shows is 43ms....Looking at it again it does show spikes in the first hop the average is pretty low.

What is strange is you are seeing a lot of jitter to the first hop which is your router. If you had not said this was powerline I would have assumed it was ethernet. In the first hop on ethenet you generally see all packets at the minimum latency. Yours you see your AVERAGE is 26ms higher than the minimum. This jitter amount is consistent to the end of the trace so it has to be the first connection causing this.


I would test with a actual ethenet cable run over the floor if there is no other option. You need to determine if it is the powerline units causing this or something else. A long ethernet cable to test with is going to save you time chasing the wrong thing.

It is not real common for powerline units to cause issues, especially if you have the newer AV2 based ones. Unfortunately there are still houses that powerline has problems in.

 

[jamiehunterupperton]

Your last image you attached is kinda surprising. It does not show the problem you discuss since the maximum latency it shows is 43ms....Looking at it again it does show spikes in the first hop the average is pretty low.

What is strange is you are seeing a lot of jitter to the first hop which is your router. If you had not said this was powerline I would have assumed it was ethernet. In the first hop on ethenet you generally see all packets at the minimum latency. Yours you see your AVERAGE is 26ms higher than the minimum. This jitter amount is consistent to the end of the trace so it has to be the first connection causing this.


I would test with a actual ethenet cable run over the floor if there is no other option. You need to determine if it is the powerline units causing this or something else. A long ethernet cable to test with is going to save you time chasing the wrong thing.

It is not real common for powerline units to cause issues, especially if you have the newer AV2 based ones. Unfortunately there are still houses that powerline has problems in.

Ive tested it and the same problems still occur, should i change DNS? Also the average is 43 but the hight is 900ms or latency.

 

[bill001g]

DNS is only used to resolve name to IP address. Once the machine has the IP address it is not used again...until the translation fimes out'

When you use a ethernet cable and you are getting high latency something must be very broken. The cable itself can not cause a delay. If there is a issue with the data it just gets discarded so you get packet loss and not delays because of bad cable.

After that there is not much left. Your machine sends a ping packet to the router. The router gets the ping packet and sends a response.

So either the packet gets to the router and it has some reason it is delayed so it waits to send the response. OR you pc actually gets the response packet in a reasonable amount of time but leaves in in the nic buffer and then tells lies about the time based on when it looked for the packet rather than when it arrived.

Both these are highly unlikely possibilities but there is not much left when you have 2 device connected via ethernet.

It almost has to be firmware issue on one device or the other.

If you have any of that stupid "gamer" network acceleration software make sure you disable it. The intel version you just unistall the app. The killer chipset version you need to install the drivers from the killer site that has all these features removed.

If you have a killer nic you can get all kinds of strange issues, they have a history of very unstable drivers. This is partially why they offer a version with all the killer features removed.

Still this almost can't happen so it is very strange.