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High Bufferbloat, can't find any solutions, have extremely high ping spikes when playing any game
So just recently ive been getting extremely high ping spikes extremely frequently. This occurs in every game i play and makes it unplayable. I have done speed tests and my upload and download spe...
I have found a solution that will work.
My solution was buying a wall adapter ethernet connection.
I found mine on amazon.
So, I finally got my new modem and the problem still remains, i bought a new wifi chip for my computer and that didnt help. When i check my internet speed at dslreports.com, I get around 100 megabits download, around 1 megabit upload(which has also been happening since this problem arose) and my bufferbloat is in the 200-1000, if it even tests its. Occasionally, it will say latency too high to test. The wifi chip i bought was a Netgear A7000 usb adabter. I have also checked the connection to servers in game and am getting ping spikes and packet loss
What is the modem you got? Did the ISP approve it and configure it on their backend?
Can you test with a wired connection?
The modem I recently got was a technicolor dpc3216 that the ISP(Spectrum) gave to me when I asked for my modem to be replaced. They did not configure the modem, im assuming configure means the same thing as install, I installed the modem. I cant get a wired connection due to my desktop being to far away from the modem and router.
It is not easy to tell if Spectrum changed the configuration or not on the 'back-end'. If they left the old modem configuration it can lead to problems.
However, now you've had two modems doing the same thing? It leads me to speculate that the problem could lie elsewhere?
What I'm thinking about it the distance between modem and device. Since it is wireless, there are two things you can do. One is to test close to the modem and router. Still fails, then start changing BANDS (SSID's) and see if that changes the problem, and while doing that, change Channels as well, you could be having interference.
Lastly, you'll need to get Spectrum out and SHOW them the high numbers and what it causes. Maybe they can figure it out, but if you got rid of a Puma 6 modem and now have one that isn't, you can be sure it isn't the modem causing this. Yes, some routers can cause this, but if it were true, you'd be seeing a LOT of noise here over it?
Here is an OLD thread I was involved in suggesting QoS would fix it, https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Bufferbloat/td-p/509840, and it seemed to . However turning QoS on brings in a different set of problems for people with speeds of 100Mbps.
Solutions I have tried
-I bought a new wifi card for my PC and that didn't work
-I replaced the modem(I checked and it still had a PUMA 6 chip) and that didn't work
-I bought a new router and that didn't work
-I tested the bufferbloat on a different computer through the wifi and that results didn't change
-I tested a wired connection to a friends laptop and it fixed the problem but doesn't help my PC(I don't know what this tells me)
-I disconnected every other device besides my PC from the wifi and the bufferbloat still remained.
