XR1000 ping spikes, poor connection and bufferbloat

Well that's all the devices I really have, I don't have other internet users in the house, just me.

I've attached the image instead, for some reason my router's IP says it's getting packet loss.

The biggest concern is the 1000-2500 ping that I get every now and then, they're complete disconnects in online games and it was difficult to test, but directly connected to the modem showed the same thing. Prior to testing it myself, my ISP's technician asked me to adjust the coax cable itself, not the connections which showed he identified as a successful solution.

With that being said I'm assuming there's really no way to get a somewhat stable connection without fixing that dodgy cable?

That's what the technician will test and I bet ultimately replace it. I just worry that if I resolve the disconnection issue I might still be stuck with 23 ping to the waveform bufferbloat test when my neighbour has 12 on the most careless setup the world has ever seen, meanwhile I'm trying every trick known to man to lower it in some way.

While I've had the XR1000 I haven't been able to reduce bufferbloat at all, does that in any way have anything to do with the broken cable or a whole other issue? I'm also looking to invest in a Cat 8 S/STP cable, I have Cat 8 S/FTP at the moment.

I'll report back when the technician has been here, I appreciate everything so far!

Okay, 2500 ping is gone now and internet is stable apart from 15-16 ping to Waveform's bufferbloat test with ping spikes up to 70 on rare occasions. I'm trying to use the congestion control sliders to lower it by 10% everytime.

My results could be great, but I'm always spiking a lot. My minimum ping looks great.

I only see my ping spike in the Waveform Bufferbloat test, a calm undisturbed ping test to my ISP's server Lampert.at shows a ping of 6-8, their server is in Rankweil and I'm in Bludenz in Vorarlberg, same state. It's my ping spikes that increase my bufferbloat and I'm not sure what's normal and what's not.

My mate just changed his Router to a newer model from the ISP and he said that he's getting lag spikes that made him quit playing for now and he's now also trying to fix his issues, he's routerless and uses an ISP router unlike me.

My concern is the ping spikes in Waveform's bufferbloat test, not sure if it's normal but they asked for a ping plotter test to their server. Should that test be undisturbed or while under load i.e playing? I want to find an issue because I'm still being peeked with lightning speed in Counter Strike which isn't normal, I barely have time to react.

The spikes are only present in Waveform's Bufferbloat test, else I can't recreate them, tried pinging their site while playing a game but it doesn't do much, at best it bumps up to 13 ping at times. But is there reason to be worried about the ping spikes in that case? Everyone I know with a router like this brings bufferbloat away and reduce ping easily and almost instantly, I've been struggling with it since I got it, could it really be the modem? My mate's net also turned to poo when he switched his router.

My ping spikes immensely when the download speed is active during the bufferbloat test, as far as I know that's the only thing I can try to change if I'd like a good connection, things online just move way too fast and weird in comparison to everyone elses and how it used to be.

Wouldn't it be more realistic if I used a different server other than my ISP one? I'm not sure if the distance I stated earlier actually should be the 6-8 ping that it has.

I'm not quite sure where to start or if there's even an issue anymore, but I'm having issues reducing my ping under active load tests, including the router inbuilt one.

Ping plotter already looks relatively fine, it's hard to create ping spikes. Could you perhaps provide me with some good results for referance? That way I don't build unrealistic expectations. I'll most likely do the router inbuilt one instead since it also has extreme spikes under use.

Little issue here, I'm not actually able to limit my download speed with Congestion Control, I've set my PC to 42% and my streaming PC to 42%, the rest on 5. Congestion Control is combined with the 42% equals 100mbps, my download is at 480+ as always. Fairly sure I should be having less than 100 for it to show that it's atleast working, that makes me wonder if QoS is even doing its thing as well.

I've attached it, nothing seems to change when I use the sliders, QoS is enabled as well as Goodput.

So everything works as intended, including QoS? I've got no idea how to know if QoS works, other than that I'm assuming the sliders will now have the intended effect?

It's always misbehaving for me, now my download speed to Waveform's bufferbloat test is stuck to 200 and upload to 2, I can't seem to make it work no matter what I do, at the minute I have Congestion Control disabled to start from scratch but it doesn't change the speeds, nothing really takes effect.