https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/extremely-high-ping/m-p/2015816#M372595 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="this shows what my ping is" style="width: 966px;"><img src="https://community.plus.net/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/61143iAF805D31D8683F4E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="tracert.png" alt="this shows what my ping is" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">this shows what my ping is</span></span>this only started about 2 3 days ago but my ping has been at like <STRONG>250 to 300ms</STRONG> and ive been playing counter strike 2 and dead by daylight and its the same and i cant even walk properly im teleporting everywhere and ive done this thing on cmd and i typed <STRONG>tracert google.co.uk</STRONG> and it was saying <STRONG>my ping was 1ms on my router</STRONG> but then as soon as it connects to anything else it spikes to <STRONG>170ms to 290ms</STRONG></P> Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:22:02 GMT Corey1 2025-08-03T13:22:02Z https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/extremely-high-ping/m-p/2015816#M372595 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="this shows what my ping is" style="width: 966px;"><img src="https://community.plus.net/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/61143iAF805D31D8683F4E/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="tracert.png" alt="this shows what my ping is" /><span class="lia-inline-image-caption" onclick="event.preventDefault();">this shows what my ping is</span></span>this only started about 2 3 days ago but my ping has been at like <STRONG>250 to 300ms</STRONG> and ive been playing counter strike 2 and dead by daylight and its the same and i cant even walk properly im teleporting everywhere and ive done this thing on cmd and i typed <STRONG>tracert google.co.uk</STRONG> and it was saying <STRONG>my ping was 1ms on my router</STRONG> but then as soon as it connects to anything else it spikes to <STRONG>170ms to 290ms</STRONG></P> Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:22:02 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/extremely-high-ping/m-p/2015816#M372595 Corey1 2025-08-03T13:22:02Z https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/extremely-high-ping/m-p/2015826#M372596 <P>I'm assuming that you're using a Plusnet Hub-2.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Have you checked whether anything on your home network is doing a large upload, and using all of your Hub-2's upload bandwidth (and therefore killing your broadband connection latency).&nbsp;</P> <P>Possible culprits -</P> <UL> <LI>Mobile phone doing cloud backups ?</LI> <LI>Other users uploading or using video calling ?</LI> <LI>A BitTorrent running ?</LI> <LI>Someone remote viewing your security cameras, etc ?</LI> <LI>Streaming content to a gaming platform such as Twitch or YouTube ?</LI> </UL> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Does running a speed test give the results that you would normally expect ?</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.plus.net/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/146642">@Corey1</a>&nbsp;wrote:<BR /> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><STRONG>tracert ... </STRONG>was saying <STRONG>my ping was 1ms on my router</STRONG> but then as soon as it connects to anything else it spikes to <STRONG>170ms to 290ms</STRONG></P> <HR /></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>That does look like a local issue with your broadband connection, your router being overloaded with excessive traffic, although there could be some issue with your first hop to Plusnet gateway 172.16.32.122&nbsp; however if there was a gateway problem then others would be similarly complaining.</P> <P>.</P> Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:49:08 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/Broadband/extremely-high-ping/m-p/2015826#M372596 outcast 2025-08-03T14:49:08Z