I currently have a 100mbps plan with spectrum, and have been using their standard router for years. It has been working fine, but whenever i am playing a game of overwatch, and someone starts watching Netflix via chromecast or something like that, my speeds jump from 90 mbps down to 8 mbps, causing an extremely have ping rate. So if i purchase a new router, will it stop chromecast from draining so much data and overall manage the speeds better?
Would getting a new router be able to manage my wifi speeds better?
- Thread starter lutrisao
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Your problem is the WiFI likely. The device likely can not detect each other and are interfering with each other. This is the key reason that it is never recommended to play games on wifi. No router will really fix this because it is the end devices causing the issue.
You have plenty of bandwidth it is not over utilization of the link. Even 4k netflix movies only use 25mbps so there is plenty left over for your game.
You need to find a way to not use wifi. If you can not run a ethernet cable then powerline would be your next best choice. You could put the netflix machine on ethernet instead it would reduce the competition for wifi but it is much better to just move the game machine off wifi.
You have plenty of bandwidth it is not over utilization of the link. Even 4k netflix movies only use 25mbps so there is plenty left over for your game.
You need to find a way to not use wifi. If you can not run a ethernet cable then powerline would be your next best choice. You could put the netflix machine on ethernet instead it would reduce the competition for wifi but it is much better to just move the game machine off wifi.
neiler0847
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I have never been happy with the standard routers provided by ISPs. With a more advanced router, you should be able to apply bandwidth priorities to difference devices/processes, or at least limit the consumption by specific devices.
It would be interesting to try the suggestion made by bill001g. Temporarily run an ethernet cable from the router to the machine and see if it helps.
It would be interesting to try the suggestion made by bill001g. Temporarily run an ethernet cable from the router to the machine and see if it helps.
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Again, with a better router, you can allocate devices to 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz networks to reduce the impact on your gaming machine. But that means your gaming machine might need a WiFi upgrade too.
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