I am a semi-pro online gamer and need a stable low latency connection, I have had the Plusnet pro package for best part of 2 years and it has been amazing, really stable and constantly giving me decent pings to all uk servers and playable pings across the globe. However since last week randomly in the evenings my ping will randomly spike up to around 70-100ms. The only real way to fix this is to reconnect my ADSL connection to get another gateway, whilst this isn’t the end of the world it is very annoying and I haven’t had to do this at all for the first 2 years usage with Plusnet apart from on the very odd occasion.
Is this purely down to over subscribed pipes/gateways? This was the issue with the previous 2 isps where my ping would spike badly when the net was busy. Being on the Pro Package I thought I should get around all of this? I know the problem wasnt local to be as changing gateways solved it.
Also to add this is nothing to do with my download speeds or sync rate, these are both fine, I get a stable 8128Kbps on my 3com router and when I do download in peek time which is very rare for anything big, I sit stable around 800k/sec which im more than happy with. What I am just getting at is my ping times which seem to be higher than normal 7-11pm, which is 90% of the time I use my connection.
Kind Regards
Dan
