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Ping spikes

GetBeaned
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Registered: 4 weeks ago

Ping spikes

Hello, I just switched to Plusnet from Vodafone and now I'm getting ping spikes in games I play. It's most noticeable with the game Heroes of the Storm, where my ping will comfortably around 13ms and spike to 30ms once a minute or so, sometimes lasting up to three seconds which the game can even identify as a disconnect.

I didn't have this problem with Vodafone, and the only difference in hardware is the router itself, switching the Vodafone Wifi Hub to the Plusnet Hub Two. I have two Eero 6's connected in bridge mode, as I did with Vodefone.

 

Thanks.

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GetBeaned
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Posts: 2
Registered: 4 weeks ago

Re: Ping spikes

To follow on to this, I took the Hub Two out the equation completely and connected one of my Eero hubs as the primary router with PPPoE and I'm seeing the exact same issue.

markhawkin
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Registered: ‎17-07-2016

Re: Ping spikes

All I can think of is differences in peering between Vodafone and Plusnet.

As I understand it, Vodafone peer in lots of locations, I have the impression that BT/Plusnet it's less distributed.

Why you are getting spikes in ping I don't know.

Assuming the Eero is able to respond to a WAN ping, setting up a ThinkBroadband monitor  

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality

would provide further data.

If you connect over WiFi, that would be my first thought but I can't see why the WiFi performance would be different between Vodafone & Plusnet using the same Eero setup.

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