Wireless Jitter Persistent no matter what I try...

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My home network has a bit of a latency issue. If I ping my wifi router directly (192.168.2.1) the jitter is nuts. It varies from 1ms to 200ms and everywhere in between. If I connect to the router with a wire and ping google/the router, I get a nice clean, consistent 42ms/<1ms. If I ping any of my devices from the router's GUI, the jitter is there.

It occurs anywhere I go in the house. I can sit right next to the thing, or 10 feet away with a clear line of sight, and get the same thing. I've tried updating the firmware, I've tried aftermarket firmware (padavan), and I've even replaced the wireless router (Asus RT-N65U) itself with a shiny new one (Asus RT-AC68U). I have tried just about every channel there is in both 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ but the issue persists (It's pretty clear, I am in a house). I moved the router to the upstairs, and sat in front of it but the issue persists, regardless of what device I am pinging. It doesn't seem to matter how many devices are connected to it.

I don't know where to go from here. I've had enough with this inconsistent internet. Any ideas or am I cursed with this issue forever? Should I surround the house in a faraday cage?
Here's a plot of the ping (to the router, from my Macbook Air w/ MacOS Sierra) http://imgur.com/a/8pFvN

Thanks!
 
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Your last paragraph suggest your only option.

In general jitter does not hurt most internet applications. If it is really bad you might see a small stall now and then on web pages but you can see that even on a perfect network because of all the crappy scripts running in web pages so you never really know.

The only thing that is affected is something that has realtime dependency on the packet delivery and can not use one of the many methods to buffer it. Even VoIP and live video conference can tolerate a 100ms or more. Pretty much the only thing that has no tolerance are game programs which is why it is recommended you never play games.

There is no fix really. The change the channel trick seldom works anymore because of the huge...
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Your last paragraph suggest your only option.

In general jitter does not hurt most internet applications. If it is really bad you might see a small stall now and then on web pages but you can see that even on a perfect network because of all the crappy scripts running in web pages so you never really know.

The only thing that is affected is something that has realtime dependency on the packet delivery and can not use one of the many methods to buffer it. Even VoIP and live video conference can tolerate a 100ms or more. Pretty much the only thing that has no tolerance are game programs which is why it is recommended you never play games.

There is no fix really. The change the channel trick seldom works anymore because of the huge bandwidth routers are using. 802.11ac routers are using blocks of 4 channels and the tri band ones use 2 blocks of 4 eating 8 of 9 total channels.

You could try to set your router to 20mhz channels. Your chance of finding a single channel rather than blocks of channels is increased but you will reduce you maximum speed.....which games to not care about anyway.
 
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