So our router is a DLink Dir 615. I have 2 roommates and it seems none of us can actually play anything online without getting intermittent lag spikes.
At first i thought someone was downloading movies, so i went and gave myself a DHCP reservation in the router's control panel, forwarded all the ports i need, and turned on QoS for myself. This doesn't seem to be helping with the lag spikes so i assume there is something else causing this problem.
How can i figure out the cause of this? I'll try running a ping test with my laptop directly plugged into our internet line and see if it's our ISP but i doubt it.
[editline]29th January 2013[/editline]
This happens when i ping -t google from my laptop using wifi.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ggxQk7P.png[/img]
My first thought is that the router is running in wireless G/N mode and isn't dual band. I'd just set it to Wireless G only and see if that fixes it.
[editline]30th January 2013[/editline]
Looked at some Amazon reviews, someone said it doesn't downstep to G so that may not be the case. Some of the routers in the line are apparently capable of running custom firmware like Tomato/DD-WRT so throw that on there.
[url]http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=13599.0[/url]
It's not my router so i don't wanna fuck with the firmware. I have my own cisco router so i'll try using that and see what happens.
Do you get these spikes when pinging the router itself?
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