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Lag spikes - all activities

Bellona
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Registered: ‎09-06-2017

Lag spikes - all activities

The problem started Tuesday last week, prior to that we have had no such problem since joining Plusnet and getting our account/connection setup correctly months ago.

 Mostly noticed whilst playing World of Warcraft, but it also happens during web browsing.  Lag spikes, big hangs of 5-10 seconds.  During WoW gaming the latencies are 15-30ms local network (constant) and 30-50ms normally outside i.e. my router to the world.  This past week the outside world has been 50-3000ms depending, quite often cycling between 500-1200ms.  No disconnections, just spikes.

 

Linespeed testing shows our normal 3.5-4mb, although pings are 10ms to 200ms (Speedtest) depending if I catch a spike.

Plusnet router, standard things tried such as rebooting, DNS flush etc.  So, any suggestions or help appreciated, thanks for taking time to read.

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MatthewWheeler
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Re: Lag spikes - all activities

Our tests aren't showing any obvious cause.

Is this over a wired or wireless connection?

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 Matthew Wheeler
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Bellona
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Re: Lag spikes - all activities

Wired connection.  Typically it's been a little better this morning I must admit, but still spiking between 500-1000ms - maybe every 10 minutes or so (very approximately).  I'll keep a close watch over the weekend and see if it is time of day related.

MatthewWheeler
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Re: Lag spikes - all activities

If you could get that info it would be great.

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Bellona
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Re: Lag spikes - all activities

Hi, sorry for the delay in replying.  So, last Sunday during a regular (my guild run raids every Sunday night) 2 hr evening session the lag spikes were coming every 6-8 minutes, each was (according to the game readings) pushing the lag between my router and the game server from 20-30ms to 1800-2000ms.

 

 

During this week the spikes have continued but appear to have dropped to a peak of 1000 ms and often 600-800ms.  The lag spikes are evident during web browsing, but it's harder to define those as they often cleared by the time I can hit a speedtest site or I just get the tail end as it fades.  

 

The speedtests are showing pings anywhere from 9ms to 600ms.  Line speed is generally 3.9-4.1 mb, that is actually higher than it hasd been up until the lag spike problem started.  Prior to the spiking problem our speed was 3.2-3.5 mb.  We are around 3.9km from the exchange and the cabling is "rough".  I do wonder if something has changed at the exchange though.

 

There seems to be no specific time of day when it is better or worse.