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Crazy Ping Spikes in Online Games
Hello! For the past few weeks I have been experiencing crazy ping spikes. The strange thing is that it only happens on games. It has never happened before also. I ran games on two different computers on the same WiFi, and experienced the same problem. I play games like COD, Fortnite, Valorant, Rocket League, etc, and my friends haven't experienced any issues of the sort. I am also on the latest firmware for the XR500. Is this because of COVID-19, or is there a fix? Thanks!
- That will be down to the ISP then, you've done what you can on your side now with that percentage but that issue is something you'll need to try and get the ISP to help with. It may help to say that your job requires low latency and that it is interfering with it, they may be more amenable.
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- What is your exact physical setup? Are you using QoS? It sounds like you may be experiencing local congestion. If you're using QoS, what settings are you using?
What do you mean by physical setup?
Netduma-Fraser wrote:
What is your exact physical setup? Are you using QoS? It sounds like you may be experiencing local congestion. If you're using QoS, what settings are you using?
As for QoS I recently disabled it and haven't seen much of a change.- For example AT&T modem model # > XR500 > another router and mentioning where devices are connected to. How did you set it up before? If you disabled it and didn't notice a change then it properly wasn't correct when enabled.