What is up with my internet? Slow, High Ping

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Kungpow

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I've been playing video games and surfing the web and I'm been noticing that my connection has been slow and my ping hits 999 when playing a game. Ex. World Of Tanks

My sister has been noticing these problems also...

Every time we have exchange students from China or Japan etc. It seems the Internet becomes extremely slow. Things become better when the students are out of the house but I need to find a
proper solution to this problem. Do I change router settings or is there any way to manage priority for computer connections? I know this sounds ridiculous but I could use some help.

There are two international students one has a laptop and a phone.
The other has just a phone.
Both have internet access.
My connection is currently wireless but I usually get 50 ping on World of Tanks.
I can answer any questions leading to the solution to the problem.

Willing to buy a new router.

Thanks

Kungpow

 
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If you are willing to buy a new router go for one that have a advanced QoS. You need one that allows you put in actual bandwidth limits not just the ones that do the silly high medium low. Loading dd-wrt on a router will likely be your cheapest option. The routers with the advanced QoS tend to be more expensive ones. I know the higher end asus ones have this feature.

Now you still must configure it special to make this work. It is configured backward to how most people think you would do it. It does not work to try to give your game "better" performance you must limit the other users instead.

Say you have a 10m internet. What you do is define groups of IP. Put your machine in a group call say "high" and leave all the other...
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What make and model is your router?

Some of the better ones have a setting called "QoS" which means Quality of Service. It allows you to set the bandwidth for each device that is accessing your WiFi. It does this by identifying each device by it's MAC address.
 
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bill001g

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If you are willing to buy a new router go for one that have a advanced QoS. You need one that allows you put in actual bandwidth limits not just the ones that do the silly high medium low. Loading dd-wrt on a router will likely be your cheapest option. The routers with the advanced QoS tend to be more expensive ones. I know the higher end asus ones have this feature.

Now you still must configure it special to make this work. It is configured backward to how most people think you would do it. It does not work to try to give your game "better" performance you must limit the other users instead.

Say you have a 10m internet. What you do is define groups of IP. Put your machine in a group call say "high" and leave all the other machines in a groups called default. Now what you do is limit the inbound bandwidth to the default group to say 5m which leaves 5m for the high group. You could include both your IP and your sisters ip in the group "high"

It would be really nice if we could just use the QoS the way the manuals imply they work and give important users more bandwidth. The problem is that only works for traffic being sent and the bottleneck is almost always on traffic being received. For QoS to work on the sending side the ISP would have to do it and they have no interest in messing with details like this. So you are stuck with configurations that only partially work.
 
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Well my router Is a Dlink DIR- 615 and I changed my firewall settings on my router. I also found the QOS and its enabled and I can set a Manual Uplink Speed if I want but its currently at automatic. I found the MAC Filter and I have multiple Unknown devices. I guess it would be the Xbox and the 2 PS3 yet there is four of them. Im not sure where to find the group IP tab. Is the dd-wrt a program or firmware that manages my router? Thanks Bill001g and crookedmouth.
 
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bill001g

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Limiting uplink speeds or running QoS on a uplink is a complete waste of time. The vast majority of router that have QoS use the method but they fail to mention it does no good at all since people very seldom are using their maximum upload speed it is all download.

DD-WRT is firmware. There are multiple revisions of the dir-615 but I think all are supported dd-wrt. Read very very carefully the instructions are a little different for the different revisions and they need different firmwares images sometimes. The key here is to not rush and read the instructions multiple times before you attempt it. There are very few modern routers that you cannot recover if you make a mistake but sometime the process involves taking the device apart so it is best to get it upgraded with the correct image the first attempt.
 
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