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Frequent ping spikes on wifi
Hello, I'm getting a lot of spikes when trying to ping my router, on wifi. Without an usb adapter, I'm getting about 5 replies in a row with over 100ms very often, before it goes down to < 1 again......
SOLUTION: After buying a new router, I was still having frequent ping spikes! With more investigation, I figured out my Intel AC-7260 Wifi card is actually the problem here... Yes the new router dramatically improved my signal, escpecially on the 2.4Ghz band, but the spikes were the same! The reason I find this so strange is that I was having spikes on another device I also tested (but that one apparently also had a flawed card haha), and since my USB Adapter didnt improve it...
So with some windows wifi settings that I found online I've managed to keep the spikes to only one at the time, instead of clusters of 3-6 packages of high delay. Sorry for the trouble, people who tried to help me!
Run speed test and watch if there is speed fluctuation. Also on wireless, signal strength should be good and steady with no or minimum inteference sppecially on crowded 2.4GHz band.
Crowded 2.4GHz band? Well, ONE other device being close to the router is enough to make the 2.4GHz wifi completely useless... 50% connection lost, 50% 2Mb/s speed... I've told my family members to use the 5GHz band now, which is pretty okay if you're fine with medium connection and some ping spikes, while I stay on 2.4GHz alone. I still have to use the WIFI USB Adapter, and only be logged onto "Wifi 2" with 2.4GHz, and I'm actually able to keep the ping spikes pretty low...
I know how stupid it can be with random people on the internet complaining about a product where they probably just messed something up, but I'm pretty sure I've tried everything that a normal customer is supposed to try, and it seems to me like the router is just bad. Unless the airtime fairness that for some reason is impossible to disable (probably bad programming) just gives all the bandwidth to the closest device...