I can't say this has been happening lately or in a specific time window. For the past year I've had wifi issues with packet loss (ever since moving into this room) and it's slowly ebbed and flowed over time. I'm just tired of this problem and need some advice to help figure it out.
Overall I've had problems with high fluctuating ping, extreme download jitter, packet loss up to 15%, and generally unpredictable performance on WiFi. I use my computer for streaming, gaming, downloading, etc. and this is very disruptive. Right now I'm running WinMTR on both my PC and on my parents', which is connected to the router via ethernet cable. My parents' PC has a consistent ping of 15-20, no fluctuations over 45, with a download speed of 60mbps. My PC currently has a ping wildly fluctuating between 15 and 5000, and it's getting even worse now, average is about 780 on all ports. Download speed is 3.5mbps according to Ookla, most of the time I was getting close to 0.5.
We have 9 devices on this network, most running wifi except the parents' PC. All get these problems at around the same time, and it seems to have very little to do with overuse/overload (I sometimes log in very late at night or early in the morning to the same bad ping). Positioning doesn't matter: running speedtest on my phone next to the router ends up with the same bad connection as when I'm testing it in the yard. I've looked up some guides including changing your router's settings, updating firmware, changing the channel, etc. Changing the channel to 1 or 11 (default being six) made it worse. Firmware updates made a small temporary improvement to wifi quality. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I hear a powerline connection is just as unreliable. At the same time, though, I remember when these problems were extremely rare on a wifi network. Why is our wifi worse?
TL;DR; packet loss, ping spikes, download jitter, bad performance ONLY on wifi, regardless of position. Attempted firmware updates and changing channel to no improvement.
Hardware:
PC adapter - Linksys WUSB6100M
Router - Netgear WNR200 v3
Router Settings:
Security - WPA2-PSK [AES]
Channel - Auto (6, 2 other networks on channel, none on 1 or 11)
Mode - Up to 300Mbps
Attached Devices - 9
Overall I've had problems with high fluctuating ping, extreme download jitter, packet loss up to 15%, and generally unpredictable performance on WiFi. I use my computer for streaming, gaming, downloading, etc. and this is very disruptive. Right now I'm running WinMTR on both my PC and on my parents', which is connected to the router via ethernet cable. My parents' PC has a consistent ping of 15-20, no fluctuations over 45, with a download speed of 60mbps. My PC currently has a ping wildly fluctuating between 15 and 5000, and it's getting even worse now, average is about 780 on all ports. Download speed is 3.5mbps according to Ookla, most of the time I was getting close to 0.5.
We have 9 devices on this network, most running wifi except the parents' PC. All get these problems at around the same time, and it seems to have very little to do with overuse/overload (I sometimes log in very late at night or early in the morning to the same bad ping). Positioning doesn't matter: running speedtest on my phone next to the router ends up with the same bad connection as when I'm testing it in the yard. I've looked up some guides including changing your router's settings, updating firmware, changing the channel, etc. Changing the channel to 1 or 11 (default being six) made it worse. Firmware updates made a small temporary improvement to wifi quality. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I hear a powerline connection is just as unreliable. At the same time, though, I remember when these problems were extremely rare on a wifi network. Why is our wifi worse?
TL;DR; packet loss, ping spikes, download jitter, bad performance ONLY on wifi, regardless of position. Attempted firmware updates and changing channel to no improvement.
Hardware:
PC adapter - Linksys WUSB6100M
Router - Netgear WNR200 v3
Router Settings:
Security - WPA2-PSK [AES]
Channel - Auto (6, 2 other networks on channel, none on 1 or 11)
Mode - Up to 300Mbps
Attached Devices - 9
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