Internet suddenly became slow

SirJosh

Honorable
Jan 11, 2014
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Hey people
Earlier today, I was playing with my friends on my Minecraft server. All our pings were good until a few secs later, my ping spiked up to over 500 (I was getting around 40 before) but the rest of my friends were fine. They all still had good 5 bar connections, while I had 1. So I checked one of my other games to see if it was just Minecraft but all of them had over 1000+ ping. I've never seen such lag before. But I found out it was something to do with the modem, not my PC because everyone who was using it was getting really slow internet. We've never had this before, and for some reason on my PC it keeps switching back to fast ping then to slow ping. I dont know why its doing this. We need serious help! Its getting annoying. We tested our internet speed and we were getting around 4mbps.
 

Greyybeard

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May 10, 2016
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That is the second thing to do.
The first is unplug your modem and router, wait 30 seconds, plug them back in and see if that solves the problem.
(The reason this is the first thing to do is because that is what your IDP provider will usually ask you to do before they do anything).