High Ping Need Help!

Mar 7, 2018
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Hello I recently switched to a wireless setup and cant bo back any time soon to a wired setup... I play a wide range of the biggest titles out there such as Fortnite, CSGO, PUBG, and more. At first at got into the lobby and my ping was about 16-17 ms. That goes for all games. Next I get into the actual game itself and it goes anywhere from 200-1500 ms instantly. I am using the NETGEAR A6210 adapter. (Note I used this exact same adapter a few months before and router/modem and it all worked perfectly! Thanks.
 
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There are few option to change in wifi. It is the pretty standard try other radio channels and set the channel width to 20mhz. Setting it to 20mhz will limit download speeds compare to say 802.11ac that is using 80mhz but it gives you much more chance to find some wifi radio bandwidth that is not being used by others. Games use very little bandwidth so for the games it will not be a issue.

Still this advise is not all that useful when all your neighbors are using the new "tri" band routers. A single device can use almost all the available radio bandwidth and if you have mulitple neighbors doing this pretty much everyone just fights for the bandwidth and nobody really wins.

The latency is caused by the wifi detecting...
There are few option to change in wifi. It is the pretty standard try other radio channels and set the channel width to 20mhz. Setting it to 20mhz will limit download speeds compare to say 802.11ac that is using 80mhz but it gives you much more chance to find some wifi radio bandwidth that is not being used by others. Games use very little bandwidth so for the games it will not be a issue.

Still this advise is not all that useful when all your neighbors are using the new "tri" band routers. A single device can use almost all the available radio bandwidth and if you have mulitple neighbors doing this pretty much everyone just fights for the bandwidth and nobody really wins.

The latency is caused by the wifi detecting interference and retransmitting the data. Your only hope is to try to eliminate the interference.
 
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