Hello TH community,
So within the past day, the internet quality on my wireless connection to my Asus RT-N66U "Dark Knight" router has been highly unstable. I'm not able to play any online games due to the latency ingame fluctuating from 30ms to 200+ms every second, making gameplay impossible. What I've noticed is that my speedtest results are pretty normal (we have Time Warner Cable's 25 megabit connection - so upload is usually 22+mb/s and upload is usually 2mb/s)...
HOWEVER, while doing a test through PingTest, I do tests to LA, which my ping should be on average 30ms to. I'm getting a 231ms ping + 55ms jitter. Normally, it should be 30ms ping, and less than 5ms jitter, but I'm not sure what's causing this large amount of lag. I know that jitter indicates fluctuations in ping, and that's exactly what I'm experiencing in games. Even a counter strike match on a LA server results in 200-530+ms ping, when it should stay stable around 30ms.
Test 1:
Test 2:
Test 3:
I should also note that yesterday my bro (who's a bit more knowledgeable on the router than I am - since he manages it) noticed that something was sucking up about 22/25 megabits on our 25megabit internet connection - through the ASUS router page We checked to make sure nobody was downloading anything, turned our phones off, I unplugged our 2 apple TVs (I hate those things), reset the router, reset our modem, etc. We know that nobody in our house was sucking up the bandwidth, yet somehow most of the bandwidth was being used for some reason. I don't think it could be someone leeching onto our connection, unless they can break a 25+ digit password....although there was an instance back in 2008 where someone on our street was remote controlling one of our PCs, but I don't believe this could be that.
Here are some specs if they help:
Router: ASUS RT-N66U "Dark Knight" Router
My Wireless Adapter: Rosewill RNX-N600UBE usb adapter (have had it for a few years, this thing is great)
ISP: Time Warner Cable 25megabit connection
We've tried the following: unplugging both router and modem and plugging them back in, resetting the router via the ASUS router page, unplugging my usb adapter and resetting its 2 antennae, disconnecting/reconnecting to the connection, etc. We've also utilized a new feature of our router's new firmware that lets us cap bandwidth per device - my mom loves to stream 2 hour movies off her apple tv (which can use 22mb/25mb of our connection - and limit the apple tv bandwidth to 8megabits or 15 megabits...we're still having our high ping and jitter problem even with the apple tvs turned off.
I'm decent with PCs, but not that knowledgeable of networking and whatnot, so please let me know if you require any further details that could help me identify the problem.
So within the past day, the internet quality on my wireless connection to my Asus RT-N66U "Dark Knight" router has been highly unstable. I'm not able to play any online games due to the latency ingame fluctuating from 30ms to 200+ms every second, making gameplay impossible. What I've noticed is that my speedtest results are pretty normal (we have Time Warner Cable's 25 megabit connection - so upload is usually 22+mb/s and upload is usually 2mb/s)...
HOWEVER, while doing a test through PingTest, I do tests to LA, which my ping should be on average 30ms to. I'm getting a 231ms ping + 55ms jitter. Normally, it should be 30ms ping, and less than 5ms jitter, but I'm not sure what's causing this large amount of lag. I know that jitter indicates fluctuations in ping, and that's exactly what I'm experiencing in games. Even a counter strike match on a LA server results in 200-530+ms ping, when it should stay stable around 30ms.
Test 1:
Test 2:
Test 3:
I should also note that yesterday my bro (who's a bit more knowledgeable on the router than I am - since he manages it) noticed that something was sucking up about 22/25 megabits on our 25megabit internet connection - through the ASUS router page We checked to make sure nobody was downloading anything, turned our phones off, I unplugged our 2 apple TVs (I hate those things), reset the router, reset our modem, etc. We know that nobody in our house was sucking up the bandwidth, yet somehow most of the bandwidth was being used for some reason. I don't think it could be someone leeching onto our connection, unless they can break a 25+ digit password....although there was an instance back in 2008 where someone on our street was remote controlling one of our PCs, but I don't believe this could be that.
Here are some specs if they help:
Router: ASUS RT-N66U "Dark Knight" Router
My Wireless Adapter: Rosewill RNX-N600UBE usb adapter (have had it for a few years, this thing is great)
ISP: Time Warner Cable 25megabit connection
We've tried the following: unplugging both router and modem and plugging them back in, resetting the router via the ASUS router page, unplugging my usb adapter and resetting its 2 antennae, disconnecting/reconnecting to the connection, etc. We've also utilized a new feature of our router's new firmware that lets us cap bandwidth per device - my mom loves to stream 2 hour movies off her apple tv (which can use 22mb/25mb of our connection - and limit the apple tv bandwidth to 8megabits or 15 megabits...we're still having our high ping and jitter problem even with the apple tvs turned off.
I'm decent with PCs, but not that knowledgeable of networking and whatnot, so please let me know if you require any further details that could help me identify the problem.