Good bandwith - BAD Latency

[khubani]

Going to keep this very short and simple. My ping in my Ventrilo is 160ms between 8-11 PM EST. It's usually 30. It's clock work. Every night at 8PM until 11, my ping sky rockets. Even in my video games. Every-single-night. Technicians came out, replaced the modem, replaced the wiring in and all around the house and had a truck come out to take a look at the pole outside. They claim they fixed it, but it's not. Because it's still happening.

It's happening now. My SpeedTest.net results come up as 25 down/2 up. That's 2.5mb/sec down, and 200 KB/Sec upload. The speeds are fantastic, but my ping to a New York server (where I live), is 87ms. That's horrible...

ISP: Optimum Online

This is a latency issue. My ping is sky rocketing. My internet speeds are not effected by this. Only between 8-11 PM. I don't know if it is traffic on the network, but my ISP has reassured me that they are monitoring my modem to see what I am going through. I do not have confidence that they will resolve this, because the team that came up said they did, and they have not.

 

[alyoshka]

Try to Tracert the Server in NY and then check for latencies and a Tracert again during the mentioned times.
Most probably, the intermediate nodes go down for maintenance during the time you mentioned thereby forcing you to take a longer route or then those servers or nodes maybe disabling the wan ping for those periods for their own reasons.
You can use a utility called NeoTrace and get a lot of very very useful info about your network too.

 

[riser]

8-11pm is peak internet usage time. Lots of people using it during that time which will affect your latency.

 

[arael]

Heh 87ms ping being horrible. Come live in Australia.
I'd kill for an 87ms ping.

 

[alyoshka]

Actually peak usage time is 5 to 7PM and 9 to 11 AM..... when offices start for the day and close for the night. That's the time the download speeds are effected not the pings usually.