Please help with lag? Tracert included

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Robert Trevethan
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Please help with lag? Tracert included

Post by Robert Trevethan »

My ping randomly goes from 30 - 50, then to 150 - 300.... I have delays when playing League of Legends constantly. It's making the game less fun lol.

I'm connected to Wifi, I have the Modem/Router that came with Verizon, I do not have any others. I'm sitting right beside the modem/router.

The modem/router is on the floor next to the TV, and between a bluetooth soundbar and bluetooth sounbar subwoofer. Is it possible that these cause interference?

Here is the tracert:

Tracing route to http://www.google.coM [173.194.123.115]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms FIOS_Quantum_Gateway.fios-router.home [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 7 ms 8 ms lo0-100.WASHDC-VFTTP-328.verizon-gni.net [108.51.128.1]
3 10 ms 15 ms 12 ms T2-7-0-1.WASHDC-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net [100.41.11.210]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 17 ms 38 ms 30 ms 0.ae6.XL2.IAD8.ALTER.NET [140.222.228.57]
6 13 ms 11 ms 10 ms 0.xe-11-2-3.GW9.IAD8.ALTER.NET [152.63.36.22]
7 46 ms 73 ms 36 ms pool-96-236-104-66.burl.east.verizon.net [96.236.104.66]
8 15 ms 14 ms 27 ms 209.85.252.80
9 16 ms 14 ms 13 ms 72.14.236.146
10 19 ms 17 ms 17 ms 72.14.239.92
11 41 ms 123 ms 19 ms 209.85.249.213
12 29 ms 20 ms 20 ms 209.85.241.173
13 21 ms 19 ms 19 ms lga15s49-in-f19.1e100.net [173.194.123.115]

Trace complete.

Here are my speed test results: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/3070350

Apparently I have latency and "bufferbloat" issues?

Any suggestions? Thank you very much!
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Post by Philip »

"Bufferbloat" is subjective, it varies with every packet, current congestion on your node, it may be just your router buffering, etc. I wouldn't worry much about that, the only thing you can try is turn on QoS in your router, or upgrade its firmware if you feel confident that's the culprit. Sometimes turning on QoS can introduce issues too, so some testing may be warranted.

As to your traceroute, there seem to be a couple of spikes here and there (7th and 11th hop), but nothing that stands out.

It is very possible that the subwoofer causes interference, or the power supply/cabling of the other devices there to a lesser extent. That would be the first thing to try, I would start with moving it to at least a couple of feet away from other devices, and possibly to a bit higher plane.

You can also try a wired connection to test whether the issues are Wi-Fi related or not.
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