I've been experiencing some really frustrating internet speeds as of late for the past two weeks.
Let me preface this all by stating I currently have the most basic economic internet speed package. however up until two weeks ago it more than met my needs.
Pre-Issue Connection:
10+ Devices wired/wireless connected to router.
Gaming CP wired connection running WoW//Swtor - 40-80ms
Xbox 360 Wireless connected streaming Netflix.
3xIphones Browsing Facebook/Espn Etc.
Roomates 2xWired Cps browsing Facebook/uploading files for their work/etc.
All these devices would run at the same time and I would never experience any latency issues in whatever game I was playing.
The Main Issue:
Around Thanksgiving while playing Wow/Swtor my latency began to drastically spike to 1000ms+ once every three to five minutes and often stay @ 1000ms+.
The problem would come and go a various times day or night.
I began to troubleshoot this by power cycling the modem/router and for the two minutes after the devices came back my latency was stable @ the low end 30-50ms but would work back to 1k+.
I ran speed/ping test and it gave me back super high 80% packet loss. I pinged my own ip via cmd prompt and there was 0% loss between my cp and the router.
So, I checked to see if there was an issue with the modem by directly connecting my gaming cp to the modem and testing resulted in 0% packet loss and a stable low ping.
I also considered maybe just moving the cables around the one could have be kinked up so I hooked my router and all the devices back up.
At this time my ping was stable and low and 0% packet loss through the router.
However, another issue has developed where in I can be gaming on my directly connected cp and be at 40ms with all the other devices on my router actively using the next with one exception.
If I go on Xbox Live and start to watch Netflix, my 40ms ping on the wired desktop spikes immediately to 600ms while Netflix Streams and reverts back as soon as Netflix is turned off... I regularly watched Netflix while online gaming prior to all these events w/o a problem.
Wondering if this could be my router going bad? I have a Belkin F5D7234-4 v4. It's super old, I know, but it did okay until this point.
TLDR:
Economic Priced Internet Package ran a ton of wired/wireless devices and wired online gaming at a decent 40ms ping.
Suddenly the ping got randomly jittery and slow to the tune of jumping to 1000ms for a few seconds every couple of minutes.
Messed with cables, jitter fixed but new issue with Netflix causing gaming ping to immediately spike to 500ms.
Let me preface this all by stating I currently have the most basic economic internet speed package. however up until two weeks ago it more than met my needs.
Pre-Issue Connection:
10+ Devices wired/wireless connected to router.
Gaming CP wired connection running WoW//Swtor - 40-80ms
Xbox 360 Wireless connected streaming Netflix.
3xIphones Browsing Facebook/Espn Etc.
Roomates 2xWired Cps browsing Facebook/uploading files for their work/etc.
All these devices would run at the same time and I would never experience any latency issues in whatever game I was playing.
The Main Issue:
Around Thanksgiving while playing Wow/Swtor my latency began to drastically spike to 1000ms+ once every three to five minutes and often stay @ 1000ms+.
The problem would come and go a various times day or night.
I began to troubleshoot this by power cycling the modem/router and for the two minutes after the devices came back my latency was stable @ the low end 30-50ms but would work back to 1k+.
I ran speed/ping test and it gave me back super high 80% packet loss. I pinged my own ip via cmd prompt and there was 0% loss between my cp and the router.
So, I checked to see if there was an issue with the modem by directly connecting my gaming cp to the modem and testing resulted in 0% packet loss and a stable low ping.
I also considered maybe just moving the cables around the one could have be kinked up so I hooked my router and all the devices back up.
At this time my ping was stable and low and 0% packet loss through the router.
However, another issue has developed where in I can be gaming on my directly connected cp and be at 40ms with all the other devices on my router actively using the next with one exception.
If I go on Xbox Live and start to watch Netflix, my 40ms ping on the wired desktop spikes immediately to 600ms while Netflix Streams and reverts back as soon as Netflix is turned off... I regularly watched Netflix while online gaming prior to all these events w/o a problem.
Wondering if this could be my router going bad? I have a Belkin F5D7234-4 v4. It's super old, I know, but it did okay until this point.
TLDR:
Economic Priced Internet Package ran a ton of wired/wireless devices and wired online gaming at a decent 40ms ping.
Suddenly the ping got randomly jittery and slow to the tune of jumping to 1000ms for a few seconds every couple of minutes.
Messed with cables, jitter fixed but new issue with Netflix causing gaming ping to immediately spike to 500ms.
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