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Aug 5, 2014
#1
I noticed earlier today while playing a game that I was lagging out due to ping spikes. I opened a CMD and did ping 192. 168. 1. 1 -t so that I could alt tab immediately as soon as a ping spike hit to monitor my connection to my router to see if that was the problem.
Here’s a screenshot of what I found:
Pinging and my router simultaneously:
I also noticed several “request timed out” ping results to my router.
I’m using an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 wifi card and a Netgear WNDR3700 router. Any ideas?
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#2
Try pinging google and post the results. Pinging your internal network isn’t an accurate way of determining internet latency.
#3
Yeah it is. If I’m getting 600 ping to my router, then it’s going to be 600 + whatever my ping is to google. I was lagging out in game and then immediately seeing 600 ping spikes to my router. So besides being simply wrong, you’ve missed the point of my thread: I want to know why I’m getting ping spikes TO MY ROUTER, ON MY INTERNAL NETWORK, and how I can fix that.
#4
Have you tried a wired connection to your router? Disconnect all other devices from your network and test it again. Have you cycled power on the router and modem?
#5
I’ve used a wired connection before, yeah, but I was actually forced to switch to a pci-e wireless card because my onboard ethernet has a huge built in lag on it. It doesn’t ever get high pings to google when I do a ping test on a cable, but when I’m playing games there is simply noticeable lag in literally everything I do. The day I swapped to the wifi card I was immediately getting better hit registration and I even devised some tests on games before and after to see the results, the wifi was simply more responsive. Ideally I’d like to fix the ethernet lag but this wifi card seemed to fix things well enough until today when I started noticing the lag spikes extremely heavily in counterstrike 1. 6.
I just power cycled the modem and router, no other devices are currently connected. I’m re-running the ping tests to my router and google in conjuction and I’ll post the results.
Well, that didn’t take long. Here’s the pinging of google and my router after power cycling, side by side from the exact same time.
#6
So, after watching the ping test for some time, I’ve noticed that it happens with an almost exact regularity, once every minute it has a lag spike. I’ll get an entire cmd prompt page of sub 1 ms pings, then a huge spike for 3 or 4 pings.
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Your testing method is valid even though I can not see what you attached. If you see increases in both the ping to google and your router at the same time you definitely have a issue. Since you see it on both it indicates it is more than just the router being too busy passing traffic to google to bother to respond to the ping.
Unfortunately you have the hardest network problem there is to fix. A 802. 11 wireless device unlike most other network devices makes sure data is sent with no errors. Because it must detect the errors and retransmit the data it takes time to do this. This is what is causing the delays in most cases. The difficultly in fixing this is it is generally caused by interference. It can be anything from a PC in your house say downloading some huge amount of data at a certain time to the neighbors security camera sending updates. Even stuff like weather radar can impact signal on certain channels in the 5g band. Every time the radar passes your house you will get packet damage.
You first need to eliminate the PC itself. You would need another device to ping and see if both experience the problem at the same time. Then if you have multiple device change the router to only allow certain groups on and see if when you eliminate one or the other it goes away.
Once you get past this part you are pretty much stuck. Finding random radio signals you really need a spectrum analyzer. They make some reasonably inexpensive but it only locates the problem it may not fix it if the problem is something your neighbor is doing. Really the solution is trying to avoid the problem by moving to other channels which may or may not be possible
#8
Is the fact that it’s happening with literal on the minute regularity of any import, or does it possibly narrow down the root cause of the spikes?
I’m wondering if I should just buy a pci-e ethernet card, like my onboard ethernet is somehow inherently flawed. I don’t know why my onboard ethernet is so lagged but it’s demonstrably awful and clearly worse than wifi when I test it in games.
#9
I would see if anyone had even a older USB wireless card you could borrow. It is pretty rare to have a hardware failure but I suppose it could be. This is why it is nice to have another device to test because if it does the same with a different wireless card you still are no closer. At least with a different device you would know if it was your PC or if it was a issue with the wireless signals or maybe the router.
#10
It happens when I ping the default gateway on a totally separate laptop.
#11
Can you borrow/buy another router and test it on that one? If you buy a router, you can always return it if it didn’t work. Also if it doesn’t work you might have to call your ISP and explain it to them, possibly get a new modem.
#12
I’m wondering if there’s a way I could just use the router to connect to the internet instead of using the comcast modem and router. I get the feeling the comcast modem is screwing this up somehow.
#13
No easy way. You need the modem to in effect convert from the coax cable to the ethernet. If it is a stupid modem with no router or wireless then that is its only purpose. You can prove the modem is good by using a wired connection directly to it. You will likely have to power cycle the modem to get it to accept a PC directly plugged in and then again when you switch back to the router.
I suspect since this too is a wired connection it will work just fine. You pretty much have proved the modem is not the problem when you pinged via the wired connection.
Now if your modem is actually a router especially if it has wireless abilities then you could have massive issue running 2 wireless routers in close proximity.
#14
Whenever there’s something wrong with my internet that a simple router/modem power cycle doesn’t fix, I always end up having to call TWC and have them reset my connection. I’ve only had to have my modem replaced once.
Simple answer: no you can’t connect to the internet without a modem supplied by your ISP.
#15
So I think I figured out what it was. I got a utility called wlan optimizer, lowered my “roaming aggressiveness” to the lowest setting, and disabled wlan autoconfig with the command netsh wlan set autoconfig enabled=no interface=”Wireless Network Connection”
#16
I want to confirm that wlan optimizer has fixed my issues described here as well, where I have recurrent spikes on both win8. 1 and ubuntu.
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How To Fix Internet Ping Spikes?

Internet Ping Spikes
Internet ping spikes are commonly occurring issues with the Wi-Fi internet connections leading to the downturn of internet connectivity.
Most often, the internet lagging and the ongoing interference or congestion (on the router which allows the data to travel from your PC to the server and then back to you), these two are the leading causes of the internet ping spikes.
The route that serves a medium to let the data travel smoothly sometimes uses numerous networks containing different segments.
For instance, the traveling of data from your home’s network towards your internet service provider network returning to the transit provider as well as to the data-center system where the server for your voice or game is situated.
To figure out the actual location where these internet ping spikes arise, it is needed to analyze the route or medium by which the data traveling took place from your device to reach the server which can quickly be done with the traceroute that subsequently sends the customized ping echo conducted messages across the route for finding all the routers that reply.
There are some tools which are used to analyze the network connection or route problems, and these tools include WinMTR and PingPlotter, they automatically send those traceroutes after each minute for monitoring the network over a more extended period.
So, in short, ping spikes are the result of the excessive engagement over the route of its traveling, where your pinging packets or ping spikes are buffering more than being processed.
It happens because the number of ping spikes or ping packets is too much that is arriving and reaching router simultaneously that it makes your package or ping to wait.
The ping spikes can be abundantly happening because of these reasons:
Google Router can experience inconvenience because of the sizeable engaging group of people using the same or shared connection with you at the same time.
It can only be due to the wrong software configuration.
Hardware failure, etc.
Therefore, it is crucial to figure out where the ping spikes are happening. To figure this out, follow these steps:
Navigate to run “Tracert” to
Open a command “Prompt. ”
Enter the “tracert ” in it. With this action, the tracert will make the data travel with the route between you and Google. Few pings will respond while the others will not, as long as it is reasonable, so it’sit fine.
Note the first and second hops.
Open up command three prompts along with running “ping -n 100 x. x. x” towards the first hop that is your router, second hop that is your ISP, then finally google which is the x. x, an IP address of the router of our interest.
How To Troubleshoot Internet Ping Spikes?
After the constant annoying experience of ping spikes each 30 to 60 seconds, it might be actual action preceded by your internet connection trying to search for the available network.
However, there are multiple troubleshooting easy steps to disable this re-occurring feature.
Type “”cmd”” in your Windows.
Enter netsh WLAN when it shows the Settings. One option into the network settings might display it too.
Wireless Network Connection displays the option regarding the auto-configuration logic, which is enabled over the network interface.
If this case appears, then type in the following detail: “netsh WLAN set autoconfig enabled with no interface over your “Wireless Network Connection. ” This action must get triggered the response, which is: Autoconfiguration disabled on your interface over your “Wireless Network Connection. ”
If this response does not get triggered, then there might be a mistake in the exact typing of your interface ” =” part.
Go to your Adaptor Settings, where you might see Wireless Network Connection, which maybe 2 or 3 in number.
The actions, as mentioned earlier with their responses, can potentially stop your wireless card from searching the nearby internet networks as well as the update process of your signal quality only when you are not asking for it, which is the main reason the internet ping spikes occur unnecessarily out of nowhere.
However, it is needed to have your action turned back on if the network got disconnected or when you won’t let your Wi-Fi to search for the nearby networks again.
Therefore, to do so, you have to change the status of disabled to enabled back on, by copy-pasting the earlier command, which is:
netsh WLAN set auto-config enabled=yes interface=” ” Wireless Network Connection”. ”
If you are using the mobile hotspot and or a Wi-Fi and experiencing ping spikes while connecting to online multiplier games, the likelihood of you being able to fix ping spikes ultimately is impossible in practicality, as you have no way to login into your mobile hotspot and make essential adjustments to Wi-Fi connections.
Furthermore, those types of connections are way too unpredictable to fix as they rely more on adverse weather conditions, your distance from the cellphone tower, and the distance between you and the game server.
Therefore, if you are using a mobile hotspot connection, you are unable to fix the internet ping spikes.
In the second case, if you are using a satellite internet connection which has the wireless satellite router, making adjustments is pretty likely to help fix the ping spikes.
First of all, navigate to the “DSL” web report website, the internet connection report will appear, pay attention to buffer bloat, a high rise in buffer bloat means a higher number of ping spikes
Log in to your Wi-Fi router with your default router login credentials.
Change internet access priority to enabled.
Set your bandwidth from 50 to 60 seconds of your total bandwidth.
Change the category into the MAC address or device (as you don’t want to prioritize by online applications or online games, you need to prioritize by method).
Set your speed Priority to “high” for a better ping-less internet connection experience.
At last, save your Settings.
Watch what happens when you get back to your DSL Report that you have encountered before making adjustments. Refresh the DSL report page and scan another test.
After refreshing, you will see a tremendous improvement in buffer bloat (excessive peeing over idle). Test results will be A+, which will indicate that your internet ping spikes are fixed.

How to fix Ethernet ping spiking with ease – Windows Report

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Ethernet spiking in Task Manager can be caused by network congestion, bandwidth-hogging devices and apps, firewalls, outdated drivers, and more besides.
Driver updater and VPN software might help some users resolve resource monitor network spikes.
Some users fixed the Ethernet spiking and dropping by changing their DNS settings, which we’ll cover in this guide.
Removing bandwidth hogs has also been proven to fix latency spikes in Task Manager, so make sure to explore this method too.
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Ping (or latency) spikes are one of the main causes of lag in multiplayer games. Many users switch to Ethernet connections because they’re less susceptible to ping spiking.
Yet, Ethernet connections can still spike much the same as Wi-Fi ones as shown in the shot directly below.
This in turn can cause a wide range of complications when it comes to your internet connection stability, thus disabling you from using the services properly.
What causes Ethernet spikes?
When you see lots of Ethernet spiking in Task Manager, you might be connected to a very congested cell tower. Network congestion causes data packet loss.
However, Ethernet spiking can also be due to limited bandwidth, firewall configurations, geographical server location, and other network issues.
Users can’t do much about network congestion. However, there are a few things you can do that might still reduce Ethernet spiking for your connection.
This is how you can resolve, or at least reduce, Ethernet ping spiking for Windows 10 games and software.
How do I fix latency spikes on Ethernet connections?
1. Utilize a VPN
VPN servers often provide more stable network performance even during peak periods. For that reason, we recommend NordVPN, which is among the most high-rated VPN services. Our fix gaming lag post provides further details about how you can reduce ping spiking with NordVPN.
NordVPN packs in all the features you would expect from a quality VPN service, plus a bit more besides. It supports a variety of protocols, such as OpenVPN, L2TP, IPSec, and PPTP. Furthermore, this software also utilizes the next-generation AES-256-GCM VPN encryption algorithm.
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NordVPN enables you to resolve any Ethernet ping spikes by managing your network through their servers.
2. Update your PC’s network drivers
Updating network adapters with outdated or faulty drivers might at least mitigate Ethernet lag spiking. Driver updater software provides the most convenient way to update PC device drivers.
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A driver updater utility will instantly show you what devices need new drivers and enable you to quickly update them.
Besides this very useful element, a good driver updater software will prevent any sort of problems with missing drivers, as it will automatically install and update them as needed.
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3. Change to Google DNS
First, click the Start button and Settings on the menu.
Next, select Network & Internet to open the tab in the screenshot directly below.
Click Change adapter options to open the Network Connections Control Panel applet.
Double-click your Ethernet connection there to open the window directly below.
Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and press the Properties button.
Next, select the Use the following DNS server addresses radio button.
Enter 8. 8. 8 within the Preferred DNS server box.
Input the vale 8. 4. 4 for the Alternative DNS server box.
Click the OK button on the Internet Protocol Version 4 window.
Press the Close button on the Ethernet Properties window.
4. Select the WPA2-PSK [AES] protocol
Open Windows 10’s search tool, which you can do by clicking the magnifying glass icon by the Start button.
Type cmd within the search tool’s text box to find Command Prompt.
Double-click Command Prompt to open its window.
Type this command in the Prompt’s window and press Enter: ipconfig
Next, note down your IP address listed for the Default Gateway, which will be something like 192. 168. 1. 1.
Open a web browser.
Input your IP address the browser’s URL bar and press Enter to open your router’s configuration (firmware) page.
Log in to your router firmware page (check your router’s manual for login details).
Select a WPA2-PSK [AES] option within your router’s security settings.
5. Close bandwidth-hogging background programs
Right-click the Windows 10 taskbar and select Task Manager on the menu that opens.
Next, click the Network column within the Processes tab of Task Manager.
Select apps and background services with high network percentage figures (for bandwidth utilization), and click End task to close them.
6. Turn off other network devices
Make sure there aren’t any other bandwidth-hogging devices turned on when you’re utilizing your desktop or laptop.
Turn off any tablets, phones, TVs, or secondary PCs you have connected with the internet. Such devices will eat up bandwidth.
7. Update Windows
Open Settings from the Start menu.
Click Update & Security to open the Settings tab directly below.
Press Check for updates to download and install any available patches for Windows 10.
If there’s a build update available, click Download and Install to get the latest Windows 10 version for your PC.
8. Run some network commands
Open the Command Prompt as outlined within the first three steps of the fourth resolution.
Then input all these separate network commands (pressing Enter after each one):netsh winsock resetnetsh int ip resetipconfig /releaseipconfig /renewipconfig /flushdns
Thereafter, open the Task Manager’s Performance tab to see if the latency spiking has dropped off.
9. Reset Windows 10’s network settings
Open Settings via the Start menu.
Click Network & Internet > Status in Settings.
Click Network reset to open the button directly below.
Press the Reset now button.
10. Don’t utilize crossover Ethernet cables
If you’re utilizing a crossover cable for your connection, consider replacing it with proper Ethernet cables. CAT-5 or CAT-6 cables are best for Ethernet connections.
So, in order to try this method, simply replace a crossover cable with one of those alternatives. And if Windows 10 Ethernet keeps disconnecting, you can check out our quick solutions.
11. Turn off Windows Defender Firewall
Click the magnifying glass taskbar button, and enter firewall in the search box.
Select Windows Defender Firewall to open that applet.
Click Turn Windows Defender Firewall on or off to open further options.
Select both Turn off Windows Defender Firewall options, and click OK to exit.
It’s recommended that you only temporarily turn off the firewall to reduce Ethernet spiking for gaming. Turn the firewall back on when not playing games.
If you have a third-party antivirus utility installed, that might also incorporate its own firewall. So, temporarily disable its shield whilst gaming. To do so, right-click the system tray icon for your antivirus software and select a disable or turn off the context menu option.
Those are some of the best ways to kill off latency spiking for Ethernet connections. If your Ethernet spiking is especially severe, however, consider contacting your ISP.
Your ISP can check for network issues causing the spiking and give you guidance for enhancing your connection quality.
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Frequently Asked Questions about ping spikes to router

How do I fix ping spikes on my router?

How To Fix Ping Spikes On WiFi Or Ethernet Connections?Use A VPN.Disable Or Turn Off Your Security Software.Update Network Drivers.Remove Or Turn Off Other Network Devices.Choosing WPA2-PSK [AES] Option.Shift To Google DNS.Update Windows.Close Bandwidth hogging programs.More items…•Sep 18, 2021

Why does my router ping spike?

Most often, the internet lagging and the ongoing interference or congestion (on the router which allows the data to travel from your PC to the server and then back to you), these two are the leading causes of the internet ping spikes.May 13, 2020

How do I fix ping spikes on Ethernet?

How do I fix latency spikes on Ethernet connections?Utilize a VPN. … Update your PC’s network drivers. … Change to Google DNS. … Select the WPA2-PSK [AES] protocol. … Close bandwidth-hogging background programs. … Turn off other network devices. … Update Windows. … Run some network commands.More items…•Jul 10, 2021