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Jedos
New Contributor
6 years ago

High Latency Spikes Causing Issues with Online Gaming

I have been having issues with lag spikes during online games. I was able to do a ping plot to the server that the game is on and found that the second hop is where these spikes originate. I am hard ...
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CarolLM
Former Moderator
6 years ago
Hi Jedos, are you able to bypss the router and hardwire directly to the modem to see you get different results? -Thanks, Carol
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      ChrisL
      Former Moderator
      6 years ago
      @Jedos

      From what you've posted without the router it doesn't appear this result is actually showing any latency. I understand you may be concerned about hops 4 and 5 however you're reaching the intended destination without latency suggesting that what you're seeing is actually ICMP de-prioritization. Have you tried the online game in question without the router attached?

      -Chris
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        Jedos
        New Contributor
        6 years ago

        Chris, I am not sure what part of the most recent results I posted looks different than the original 2. There are definitely lag spikes starting at hop 2 (10.115.0.1) and continuing to the destination. You can see this in both the graph at the bottom and the grey horizontal bars in the top right.