Random Ping Spikes in League of Legends/Dota 2 led by High Router Ping Spikes in CMD?

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Hi,

I have had my computer for about a year now, but I have never seemed to have resolved this issue when using Wireless. The problem revovles around my Internet giving me random ping spikes when gaming, specifically with games such as DotA 2 and League of Legends. I get ping spikes that go up from 50-60ms to about 250+ ms in game. As I run cmd in the background, pinging my default gateway IP -t (my router), I noticed that whenever I have a spike, my router ping will follow successively and spike up as well from lowest of 9ms all the way upwards to about 1500ms. The ping-in game then drops back to normal and will eventually spike up randomly again, followed by the router ping spikes.

Also, I am not receiving any packet loss according to the results shown in cmd by constantly pinging my router. When plugged in using an ethernet cable, gaming is perfectly fine with no lag and ping spikes whatsoever.

Router: Linksys WRT160N set with Wireless-Networking N
ISP: Shaw Communications
PC and Network Adapter: Asus G55VW with default built-in NIC Atheros AR9485WB-EG Wireless Network Adapter (driver vers 9.2.0.469)

Does anyone know what is potentially wrong? Any help/advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks.
 
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shflabstract

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Thanks for the advice, scout_03. I have just reformatted my machine back to its original factory settings today. After changing the channel settings to wide channel 9 and standard channel 11 (radio band: wide channel 40mHz), I have tested running games while having cmd in the background. I still seem to be getting ping spikes but its not as frequent and the spikes are very low in gaem (around 150ms). One thing I also noticed is that my wireless adapter's signal strength randomly drops from 5 bars to 3 bars. The speed of the connection when clicking the status also seems to be constantly fluctuating.

I am still confused on what might be wrong.
 
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shflabstract

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It seems like Channel 11 is the best channel for me according to Inssider. There appears to be no overlapping channels as I am the only person on Channel 11. I've also downlodaded netstumbler but for some reason when I run it, it says no wireless adapter detected even though my Belkin N300 USB Adapter is directly plugged in a USB port.

I've also noticed that when I get these ping spikes, the speed on my Wifi adapter is constantly fluctuating. At one point, it will stay constant (52 mbps, sometimes even going up as high as 117 mbps) and then will all of a sudden drop down to lowest of 1.0 mbps. Would this perhaps be linked to causing these ping spikes?
 
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there are 2 settings for device detection in the stumbler also could it be that you belkin adapter overheat and cut in bandwith i would check this one on another system and also with some friend sytem if the have the same issue of cutting bandwith .
 
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there are 2 settings for device detection in the stumbler also could it be that you belkin adapter overheat and cut in bandwith i would check this one on another system and also with some friend sytem if the have the same issue of cutting bandwith .
 
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