Spiking Network Utilization

[DocerDoc]

So my ping has been on/off spiking. Its usually scaling from 50 to 150+ and scaling back down again. Really makes online gaming impossible as it feels like massive packet loss.

I'm wondering if this network utlization has anything to do with it?

This problem usually only happens during evenings and the ISP claim everything looks good on their end.

 

[bill001g]

Not sure what you are referring to this does not look that bad. You have small spikes of data to about 8-10m but the overall average is only 2.8m. This is pretty much how data always flows it is sent in bursts in most cases. It greatly depends on the application sending the data and how it works.

If you really want to get technical your ethernet port always sends at either 100m or 0 and all the numbers are averaged numbers.

This looks like a windows xp screen so you do not have all the nice tools. Window resourse monitor will let you see the traffic rates by application. It does not have nice graphs but it tends to be pretty obvious what program on your machine is using the bandwidth.

If you really want to find it you can use wireshark and capture every packet going and coming from your machine.

Now this of course assumes you only have 1 device using your connection it is not possible to see what other machine are using or doing from your pc.

 

[Kewlx25]

What is your internet connection speed? 12.5Mb/s may be overloading your connection or old router. I assume it's old because 100Mb/s link rate.

 

[DocerDoc]

On windows 7, 10mb/s connection which is semi Satellite (Think it satellites to the nearest access point and is wired from there), router is relatively new.

The problem seems to come and go, one week I could be running with 50ping solidly other weeks it would be constantly scaling up and down.

I just thought the graph was relevant because when my ping is stable the graph also appears much stable.

 

[bill001g]

Your problem is going to be to find out what software is guilty. If you have window7 just leave the resource monitor run on the network tab you should see a list of all the things running and even the IP they are talking to. You should see these bad things spike in and out of the list.

If that does not work then you try wireshark. You should see the exact same spikes on the wrieshark i/o graphs but since it is a capture you can take the time stamps and go look for the actual packets.