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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!
WPA2-PSK [AES], currently 72: channel 11, 145Mbps, 5G: channel 44, 289Mbps. Both being alone on that channel. Switching the modes doesn't seem to change anything. 60 Mbit/s up, 20 Mbit/s down. Modem: Cisco EPC3010. To be honest I think I would try another router (Asus RT-AC66U) before I'd try a new modem.
My R7800 wireless setting is 2.4GHz upto 800, channel 1, 5GHz upto 1733 channel 151. ( I always get better signal on higher channels)
Setting at max speed you can bond two channels(primary plus secondary) giving wider band width to take advantage of faster mode like -AC.
On 2.4GHz 1 and 5, on GHz 151 and 53.