Gaming Spikes through WiFi Connection

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SkyperGK

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Hello community,

well as the title says I have issues with the WiFi connection while gaming.
It happens every time, no matter the game and as it seems I have sudden packet loss.
My computer:
MoBo: Asus Deluxe Z170 (using the wifi adapter of the motherboard)
CPU: i7 6700K
RAM: Corsair Dominator 16GB 3Ghz
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW
SSD: 2x Intel 540's
PSU: Corsair HX750i

So, where is my problem...
My apartment has no phone connection (thus no modem/router).
Everything is upstairs but the WiFi signal is strong 5/5. The speed is 70Mbps/70Mbps download/upload respectively. The network is splitted into 3. I am granted access to one of these networks. While gaming my ping is around 40-50 but I have spikes (sudden moves back/forward).

Pulling an ethernet cable is not an option because the cable will be quite long and I will lose signal strength. At the same time other networks will probably use the internet from the same modem.

I do not know the model of the router (I haven't even seen it actually).

Just to mention that there was an issue with the latest driver of my motherboard's wifi adapter. As long as I install the latest version I am unable to connect to the network. So I use an older version of the wifi adapter. However, ASUS has sent me notifications for 2 BIOS updates.
I do not want to unstall BIOS update if there is no reason to do so.

The fact that the network is splitted into 3 might be the reason if the other 2 networks are uploading and downloading all the time but I guess there should be a way to keep a balanced speed for every network. Isn't it?
Do you have any suggestions of what could be the problem?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Don't believe everything you read. How can any motherboard give gaming priority. It can only affect stuff running on your machine. It can not limit other people in your house using internet and it can definitely not affect people outside your house. All it can do it try to prevent stupid people from doing stupid stuff. It might help if you were running torrents on your machine and trying to play games. It could let the games run faster.....but isn't it just simpler to not run the torrents than to expect some program to save you.

The signal level is only 1 variable. If you have a neighbor that got a new router and is attempting to use the same radio channels as you he will cause interference. It could even be one of those...
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Depending on where you are located, your ISP, the speeds you get from you ISP, the quality of your mobo's WiFi adapter, and the distance you are from a strong wireless access point are the main factors. Like many people, including yourself, you might not be able to an Ethernet patch cable to your PC.

I've always gamed via WiFi and I experience better connections than a lot of people I see use Ethernet, and I'm on a different floor from the access point. I would say cheapest best bet in order of how you might remedy this is to: 1) Restart Your Computer.
2) See if there are any driver updates for your wifi adapter, and if so install them to see if you gain improvement.
3) If you have antennas you can re-position for better signal strength, try adjusting them.
4) Clear any unnecessary processes you aren't using in Task Manager.
5) Clear Local Cache and Flush and Renew DNS via command prompt utility.
6) Try a different wifi adapter, either USB or PCI if nothing helps above.

Other than that, I guess anyone else can add their opinions. But this is always the first steps I take as an IT specialist.
 
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Your never going to get a 100 % stable ping or latency from a wireless Adapter used to connect to your home network and router you have setup up.

Even if you have or get a decent signal strength you will still get a percentage of signal cut off.

If you play games regular, multiplayer online and at competition level you simply use a wired connection direct to the router to get the lowest Ping or latency you can depending on where the game server is located in the world.

The further away the game server is in distance even with a wired connection and a fiber optic cable connection to the router the higher the ping or latency of you, as the client computer will be in ping or latency.

There is no supplement for a wired Ethernet connection straight to your router.

It`s as simple as that !
 
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SkyperGK

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Like I said
WiFi signal 5 out of 5 (Very strong).
The antenna is at the same place for 2 months now and I didn't had any issues until the past few weeks.
No updates have been made in my computer.
The latest driver version of my wifi adapter causes malfunction and I am not able to connect anywhere.
"The computer is unable to connect to the network"

By the way this Motherboard (ASUS Z170 Deluxe) is one of the most expensive of this series and it suppose to be perfect for gaming even through WiFi by giving priority to gaming.

As for the ping/latency I know it is all about the location of the server somewhere in Europe I guess (usually Austria, Germany, France etc) but the ping is not the problem. I get spikes and everything is lagging with a very normal ping around 30ms.
I guess the guy upstairs is the one pulling all the speed with the ethernet and I am getting nothing downstairs with the WiFi.

I was wondering if there is any option to split the speeds so both of us can have max 35/35Mbps instead of 70/70.
Does anyone know anything about setting limits for different networks or something?
 
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Don't believe everything you read. How can any motherboard give gaming priority. It can only affect stuff running on your machine. It can not limit other people in your house using internet and it can definitely not affect people outside your house. All it can do it try to prevent stupid people from doing stupid stuff. It might help if you were running torrents on your machine and trying to play games. It could let the games run faster.....but isn't it just simpler to not run the torrents than to expect some program to save you.

The signal level is only 1 variable. If you have a neighbor that got a new router and is attempting to use the same radio channels as you he will cause interference. It could even be one of those new cars that has a wifi hotspot in it driving by your house.

Wireless is affected by massive amount of stuff that can be very random in nature. This is why you should never play online games on wireless. It is just one of those things you must live with. It can work great for days and then be horrible.

You are assuming that the other person is using all the bandwidth. That is a very different issue and is not related to wireless. You would have to see if the router has logs and you can see the actual utilization. A game uses almost no bandwidth. Most are in the 300k-500k range. It would actually be fairly hard to use 70m of bandwidth doing normal stuff. Torrents of course can wipe any connection.

I would consider powerline networks to get connection to the router. This will solve the wireless issue. Solving the usage issue is mostly a non technical thing. Many router you can implement qos rules but you need a agreement on what those rules should be.
 
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SkyperGK

SkyperGK

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I made a small experiment and it is true.
My download speed goes crazy from 6Mb/s to 0,4Mb/s especially when everyone is at home during evenings.
I will try to set some download and upload limits to all of the networks. If this doesn't work I will place a powerline to connect to the router. Thanks for your inputs guys!
 
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SkyperGK

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The final solution to my problem was pulling an ethernet cable.
It might be long but the speeds are fine, latency very low.
Thanks for your time community!
 
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