Ping Spikes (Chandler, Arizona)
Hello, hoping someone could shed some light and possibly help me with something I've been dealing with lately..
I've been experiencing an issue that I can't seem to fix on my own so far. While playing games online, there are frequent lags that result in everything stopping for a short period of time (it's almost always about 3 seconds), and then quickly speeding to catch up. The intervals are quite inconsistent. Sometimes I can go 40 minutes without one, other times they happen 4 times in a 5-10 minute interval. Obviously, this is very disruptive. I initially made sure it wasn't the game I was playing, and once I did that, I ran a ping test which shows very consistent ping at 20-25ms typically, then every so often it will spike to very high levels. I actually ran the test concurrently while I played the game, and of course, the ping spikes shown in the test perfectly lined up with me having connection issues in the game. So, I know for sure this is a network issue now. I've never had this happen to me prior to a couple weeks ago when it started. I've had disconnections, sure, outages, sure, but this particular issue is very strange and not something I've seen. I have a technicolor CGM4331COM which has been very good up til now. Can anyone please offer some suggestions on what could cause this, or what could fix it? This is not happening during peak times. Currently it's 12:55AM on a Tuesday and I am having the issue. This is also not something that's likely being caused by bandwidth overload on my modem. I have two devices connected to my modem, and only use one at a time. No one else has any access to it. I've reset the modem multiple times on Cox's website to no avail. I'm very unsure on what to do at this point, mostly because the issue is so odd. If it was just flat out disconnecting, I've dealt with that and I'd assume it's just normal outages that happen. But the nature of this issue really makes me wonder what could be causing it and what could possibly fix it. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. The attached pictures were part of the test I ran that show what's happening in terms of the stable ping spiking to really delayed levels.
Welcome to the forum. First, are you testing with a wired or wireless connection? Wired is better. Next, what are you pinging when you run that test? Try typing "tracert [IP or domain]" and show those results. Or if the spike is intermittent then download and use Pingplotter to run the trace. That is easier too because you can share(File> Share > Create share page) the data without having to take screenshots.