I get lag spikes, because I use Ethernet and someone else my house is using a Wi-Fi adaptor while watching YouTube! HELP!

George Artikis · Mar 7, 2017

Ok, so, I play games every day of my life about 3-4 hrs a day and half of that time I get lag spikes during my games (Overwatch, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends). I use Ethernet and my brother uses a Wi-Fi adaptor and every time he watches a video on YouTube I get lag. It's only YouTube. When he is gaming I'm fine or talking on skype/discord. It's that when he clicks on a YouTube video I get massive lag spikes and I don't understand why?

Does anybody know here?

What should we do? Should he use Ethernet? Should I use Wi-Fi? Any help is appreciated!

pepslight · Mar 7, 2017

George Artikis :

Hi there, first of all what internet speeds do you have ??, I would tend to believe it could be connected with Bandwidht being overloaded. You could set a bandwidth controll, and limit that Youtube or Streaming web-sites from stealing the Whole band. to do that it depends on wich Modem/Router you have. your router should be abble to support QoS, Im not a massive expert with Networks. Another possibility is that you have a Sh*t Modem/router and he is just being overloaded with traffic and can´t handdle it.

boosted1g · Mar 10, 2017

Etherent is better then wifi.

Your problem is exactly what peslight is saying.
Either your internet connection is not very good or your modem/router sucks (or both).
Using QoS (if router has that ability) could help or even cure your issue depending on internet conenction and router.

alth0triplemadang · Mar 19, 2017

Tell your brother to not to watch youtube when you're gaming.
As simple as that.

YouTube uses a lot of bandwidth because it's a video streaming site.

Go with Ethernet. It's stable, reliable, and... sometimes faster.

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