[SOLVED] Ping spiking at certain times of day

[TommyBoy101]

I've been getting constant ping spikes every day where I play on 20ms then suddenly it spikes up to 400-500ms during the evening and night. I've made sure that no other electronic devices were turned on and unplugged them all when I do get the ping spikes and that doesn't make it drop back down. This happens mostly at night with some cases happening in the evening. It usually goes on for the rest of the day and drops down to 20ms at midnight. I have no clue why this just happens at certain times of the day. My Internet bundle gives me 300mbs so this shouldn't be an issue. I've tried to ask about their ISP and if it's something on their end and they tell me they can't find the issue. This all happens with my ethernet cable plugged in, Wifi is even worse getting up to 600ms.

 

[bill001g]

Although it is highly unlikely let a ping run to your router IP to make sure the problem is not inside your house.

You can then run tracert to say 8.8.8.8 and ping various nodes in the path. Hop 2 is the best option since that represents the connection between your house and the ISP. You can try other hops if you do not see anything but the farther away you get the more likely it is in a different ISP

If you had said you get packet loss that tends to be easy for the ISP to fix. Ping spikes mean some equipment is holding the data. Most times this is load related. If for example someone in your house was downloading large files. It can also happen because your neighbors are over using the bandwidth. This used to be a huge issue but it is not as common now days with the huge bandwidth ISP have. The ISP is going to be extremely reluctant to admit they have oversold their network