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Nighthawk R7960P Lag and DNS Issues -- I'm losing my mind!
I'm at my wits end with this router. Back in July 2022, my father gifted me a Nighthawk R7960P router. Being the IT geek and avid gamer I am, I figured this router would be more than enough for mys...
I activated IPv6 and did not notice any changes in my network performance. I think it's worth noting, I have not had NXDOMAIN DNS issues recently. After setting the DNS manually on the router and computer, they went away for a while. At least, they don't pop up nearly as much as before. I think IPv6 helped with this as I still didn't have any issues.
Now, I'm still having latency issues. I verified it's not just the game I've been playing (CoD MWII) as I had the same issues with Rocket League and Fall Guys. All three of those games were launched from different launchers for variation as well. I can't quite figure out what the cause of the issue could be.
We rarely have issues with streaming and I get about 380mbps down with Spectrum, so buffering shouldn't be much of an issue. It's like the games get hung up sending data because the lag spikes come in waves. I'll start a game with about 40ms of latency, and then it spikes up between 220ms and 380ms, then settles. The latency just fluctuates from there.
I know there is real possibility that it's not the router, but I don't have these issues on other networks when I game. Any helpful tips?
Xephisol wrote:I activated IPv6 and did not notice any changes in my network performance. I think it's worth noting, I have not had NXDOMAIN DNS issues recently. After setting the DNS manually on the router and computer, they went away for a while. At least, they don't pop up nearly as much as before. I think IPv6 helped with this as I still didn't have any issues.
Now, I'm still having latency issues. I verified it's not just the game I've been playing (CoD MWII) as I had the same issues with Rocket League and Fall Guys. All three of those games were launched from different launchers for variation as well. I can't quite figure out what the cause of the issue could be.
We rarely have issues with streaming and I get about 380mbps down with Spectrum, so buffering shouldn't be much of an issue. It's like the games get hung up sending data because the lag spikes come in waves. I'll start a game with about 40ms of latency, and then it spikes up between 220ms and 380ms, then settles. The latency just fluctuates from there.
I know there is real possibility that it's not the router, but I don't have these issues on other networks when I game. Any helpful tips?
Did you also set the IPv6 values for DNS addresses?
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