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XR1000v2 Random ping spikes at modem AND router, while wired?
I have been seeing ping spikes for months and have been going back and forth with visits from my ISP trying to "solve" the problem and nothing they do seems to actually fix it. They have replaced ...
I attached a new one with it set to 2.5, I don't know if that's default but maybe it is. Also I think the 2nd hop is my modem/default gateway? so I blacked that out since I'm not sure if that's personal or not.
The first one I just did it to google but this 2nd one is to a game server that I know is in California just to see the discrepancy with what I KNOW should be around 100ms to CA compared to the first few hops which are supposed to be local and definitely not 160ms spike on a 2nd hop or 154ms spike on the 3rd hop.
But I also don't think I should be seeing a 12ms spike on my router but these spikes are less frequent compared to the 2nd hop ones.
In a game like Street Fighter 6 I have seen it drop me down to 3bars which I believe is above 75ms by their standards but also it would for whatever reason sometimes freak out the matchmaking lobbies recommend me to join EU servers even when I'm on the east coast USA.
Marvel Rivals lets me see actual ping to different servers directly and I keep seeing it flucuate from Green to Yellow. And when I do their own diagnostics it would say my ping to VA is like 75ms which seems high since I live in PA but then it would say the Optimal Server is Sydney, Australia with like 250ms and 50% packet loss even when the others are detected as better. Which I don't understand. So it keeps changing regardless.
This is all without the Geo Filter active because I tend to play with friends from across the country sometimes, so that's not really the issue since it's happening outside of games of course. I'm also not using a VPN or anything.
Keep in mind game servers don't always respond to pings so it could be giving you a false indication of a bad connection - it would be better to use a close server such as a local news site for example. The bottom part of the graph is what you want to focus on generally as the hops can just indicate that ICMP pings are treated as a low priority which isn't really an issue as it wouldn't actually be that bad with normal traffic.
Where is it exactly you're located? Are there not any close servers to you there? I would have thought you'd have a much better ping to local servers than 75ms generally. What times of the day are you generally playing and do you notice a better connection/lower ping when you play during times you wouldn't normally?
Where is it exactly you're located? Are there not any close servers to you there? I would have thought you'd have a much better ping to local servers than 75ms generally. What times of the day are you generally playing and do you notice a better connection/lower ping when you play during times you wouldn't normally?