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I had 10/10 internet. No issues whatsoever. Then I moved and now have issues (so it's not a hardware issue).

I have Cox internet.

Speedtest.net: http://i.imgur.com/jYWJUPS.png

Pingtest.net: http://i.imgur.com/1hmAfCV.png

The issue is that when I play games, mainly in the afternoon, I get these random ping spikes between 200-400. I also stream to Twitch, where I "had" this issue where my gameplay would freeze but my audio would continue. It turns out it was some ISP routing issue I fixed by adding their stuff to my firewall/router to ignore it. Now it's...decent...but these ping spikes are ultimately what mess it up still.

Any ideas? Thanks.
 
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Would you recommend something like Open DNS? Or is that something entirely different?
 
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I haven't tried a DNS change *yet* but a friend asks why it would be DNS change when you can still hear the audio perfectly during a stream.

Literally the stream is just dropped frames but audio continues perfectly. OBS will show like a spike of 2400 dropped frames at random.
 
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I have logged into my router but an truly unsure of where the setting is. I have an Arris TG2472 router.
 
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It could also be your machine obs and games on the same machine can easily max various resources but mainly cpu.

If you have another device leave a continuous ping run to some common address like 8.8.8.8. See if the delays you see on your main machine correspond to delays you see on your testing device.

You could also leave a ping run in a background window on you main pc but it too can be affected by overloads of the machine.
 
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I use an ethernet cable. I've tried switching it as well, putting it into different ports and no change.

I had decent luck earlier with 45m without any issue until it started again, this is AFTER changing my DNS by the way. It's odd because I get massive dropped frames in OBS, my upload speed goes to trash according to OBS, but my stream doesn't completely lag. It's literally only frames as my audio is 100% unaffected and continues as normal.

I highly doubt it's my machine. It was 100% perfectly fine for months up until I moved.
 
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It took some time but, I may have found the root cause. I was getting packet loss in game, although pingtest.net never found packet loss. I sat on a program long enough and what do you know, after about 30 min I saw some packet loss. ISP coming to try to fix, I hope.
 
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