Question What to blame for my High Ping?

[diegohm]

Hey there,

So I've been having latency issues when using either WiFi or a Tplink ethernet powerline kit (Av600 kit). I ran some ping tests pinging my default gateway and the game server in command prompt and noticed that I always have ping fluctuations when using both wifi and the powerline kit, but when plugging my laptop directly into the router I didn't have a single spike. I should also mention that my download speeds on speedtest.com peak around 5mb/s while on wifi/powerline ethernet even when standing right next to the router, while they reach around 40 mb/s on ethernet. I understand that ethernet is always better but usually the difference between ethernet and wifi isn't that abyssmal. If my connection is just fine while on ethernet, can I rule out my ISP being at fault here? Could it be the router?
Thank you in advance.

 

[rgd1101]

if it work fine with Ethernet, then it is not ISP

 

[diegohm]

if it work fine with Ethernet, then it is not ISP

I did some ping testing on ethernet yesterday and I only had very few minor lag spikes. The thing is, my ping was also pretty stable while on wifi at the time. When I went back upstairs after a while however, I ended up having a constant high ping up to 2000 ms. I also noticed that we have a 5Ghz wifi network that my laptop can't connect to since it has an old wifi adapter. I ran some ping tests on my phone and my laptop and my phone always had better results, even better while I was connected to the 5ghz network.

 

[rgd1101]

so you have issue when you use wifi far away from the router?

 

[diegohm]

so you have issue when you use wifi far away from the router?

Not far away. Ism right above the router and even when standing right next to it I get very low download speeds. And for some reason the 5ghz wifi network is all of a sudden really weak after the internet stopped working for a while.

 

[rgd1101]

I did some ping testing on ethernet yesterday and I only had very few minor lag spikes. The thing is, my ping was also pretty stable while on wifi at the time. When I went back upstairs after a while however, I ended up having a constant high ping up to 2000 ms.

so only download is bad, but ping is fine when you are close to the router?

 

[diegohm]

so only download is bad, but ping is fine when you are close to the router?

Im not too sure about the ping, I haven't been able to test that but I know for certain that the download is extremely low.

 

[diegohm]

I also noticed that I only lag when playing games on my laptop. I'd won loaded some mobile games to see if I lagg there too but I ended up having very few lag spikes compared to my laptop. And all that while connected to the same wifi network