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Lag spikes on CG3100
Every day I am (trying) to play games online I get huge lag spikes (999 ping), last time this happened I tried pinging, and got this result: As you are guessing this is not normal. I am using...
Hi, thanks for your replies.
Here's another screen, similar behavior. You can see that the response time is quite good but then it spikes all of a sudden.
If the other users on the network are hogging the bandwidth, wouldnt it constantly have higher response times?
Anyway the bandwidth is not an issue at all, because I have 200 Mbit/s which usually yields about 15-20 MB/s (speedtest), its the latency, more specifically the spikes. It wasn't like this a few months ago.
And unfortunately the router does not have any QoS. Is there anything at all to do? Better router?
Here's another screen, similar behavior. You can see that the response time is quite good but then it spikes all of a sudden.
If the other users on the network are hogging the bandwidth, wouldnt it constantly have higher response times?
Anyway the bandwidth is not an issue at all, because I have 200 Mbit/s which usually yields about 15-20 MB/s (speedtest), its the latency, more specifically the spikes. It wasn't like this a few months ago.
And unfortunately the router does not have any QoS. Is there anything at all to do? Better router?