Spikes with LAN

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:41 am

Greetings,

Let me preface this by saying that I'm connected directly into the wall via LAN going directly to my laptop. There's no modem? Non that I can see anyways..

I recently moved to Doha, Qatar and was more or less pleased with the internet service that came with our apartment.

Now, however, while playing Overwatch (and just about anything and on any device) there will be about 5 seconds of decent gameplay followed by 1-2 seconds of lag. Rinse and repeat for the whole match.

Did a speed test and found that the connection seems to be dropping to the same tune. It goes from around 6mb/s for around 5 seconds to 0mb/s for a second or two repeatedly.

Is this just a problem with the ISP? Could the other people in the apartment be causing it? Would increasing my internet speed from the ISP fix it?

Thank you for your time!

Post by **Philip** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 10:38 am

It is possible for this to be either the ISP or your neighbors, even something on your machine using up the connection. I would try to narrow it down by answering some of the following:

Is something else running on your computer that may be using up the Internet connection (are you close to the upstream cap) ?
Are other clients (another computer) in the same location experiencing the same issue ?
Are other neighbors experiencing it ?

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:31 pm

I doubt it's anything on the computer that is causing it but I'll do a check.
I don't have another computer that can connect to the LAN(silly macs) but I'll try to find another one.
Going to visit the neighbour's tomorrow and see. If they're experiencing it to that would mean it's the ISP? Why would that happen if it were from them?

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:49 am

So,I think the connection is shared by 32 users in the building. That would be the upstream cap problem? Anyway of getting around that?

Post by **Philip** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 7:08 pm

Yes, but only by some type of QoS settings at the gateway/router that everyone is connected to..

Impervious · Post by **Impervious** » Sat Aug 27, 2016 3:30 am

I figured out what the router's ip is but they must have changed the user/pass from the default. Ah well. I think I'll get my own connection. Expensive as f here though - (Ooredo QA)