Getting awful lag spikes in certain games

classy narwhal

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Basically, for the most part, all my other games have absolutely no lag and my ping is consistent. However, 2 games I play are an exception, Rocket League and UT4, my ping stays around 30ms for 45 seconds to 1 minute, then it jumps up to 300 ping for a few seconds then drops back down. I am on a wireless connection (and wired is not an option for me, my computer is very far away from my router and parents are paranoid assholes.)

But what doesn't make sense is why my problem is only exclusive to these two games, I'd figure all my games would be problematic but its only these two games, which confuses me. And when I use tethering on my phone to connect my pc to my router, these problems go away. Only downside to that is my upload tanks, so I can't really live stream.

My wireless connection with my usb adapter is pretty darn good, I'm actually able to livestream games in 1080p@45fps. It sucks because I have a ball with these games when I'm not lagging, and these latency spikes are just ruining them for me.
 


It does sound like a WiFi issue to be honest. You say you can't use a wired connection, however have you considered *power line adaptors*? They allow you to run a wired connection via the power cabling already in the house- no unsightly cables anywhere and should give you a nice stable connection for games :)
 

classy narwhal

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I thought those suffer from the same issues wifi suffer from because don't both adapter communicate with each other wirelessly?

I'll definitely consider getting that in the near future, but I just bought the wireless adapter a little over a month ago, and I've already spent quite a bit of money in the past few weeks.

And even with that, my parent's most likely will not let me do that, because they're extremely protective and paranoid about our "airport" router (even though its like 6 years old).

But what I don't understand is why I suffer from lag in only these two games, why nothing else? I could see if every game had this problem, but its just these two games.