That is what I wrote in my message above, that I participate in Zoom meetings. But also the spontaneous outages can disrupt work, and I connect to a remote desktop at my physical office and the high pings/jitter/lost packets make it hard to use anything remote.
Yep, as the rest of the world is more aware of now, with all the zoom calls and work at home, jitter and latency can be a real problem. Not just the gamers anymore.
OK.. there is something that may help. Two ways to go, depending on your DIY and hackabiliy factor is.
Very briefly, there is a thing called Bufferbloat, where heavier usage causes serious lag. There are software features in some routers that can deal with that and smooth out the lag.
It also can smooth out cable lag bursts and such, to some extent. You either get a new firmware for your (hopefully compatible) router, and a bit of setup and you're on your way.
OK, pretty technical, and most people might be backing away slowly.. but there's another way to go. The IQ Router guys are starting with the innovations available in the OpenWRT firmware, and adding their self adjusting tech to the mix, so you just buy their router, and it automatically has and sets up the secret sauce.
I really don't have any connection with IQ Router, am just someone who's been using OpenWRT for a long time at home, and it does help with cable issues here. Would be nice if we DIDN'T HAVE lots of cable lag, and it can't fix it all, but it is a help.
I also should say I haven't used an IQ Router, but had some relatives get one, and they keep calling me their Internet Hero for over a year now, when we get together...
