Stabilizing Wi-Fi ping

Question

I've been having some issues with in-game lag spikes. Nothing game breaking, but they can be troublesome. I have two routers: one from Xfinity that comes straight from the ISP, and one linked to the router/modem box by Linksys: WRT 1900.

I've done some reconfiguration, with some possible improvement, and some other strange behavior has popped up.

Using my computer and phone as pinging devices.

• Linksys router default gateway: 192.168.1.1
• Xfinity router default gateway: 10.0.0.1

When pinging either with my computer, I would get pings in the 200-400ms range, but it would read:

Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 64 bytes of information 
Reply from 1.1.168.192 ... 231ms

It also had stopped being able to ping 192.168.1.1 with an error of "request timed out".

And if I reverse the ping location to 1.1.168.192,

Pinging 1.1.168.192
Reply from 192.168.1.1 ... 5ms

it pings in the 1-7ms range

My phone pings 192.168.1.1 in the 1-7ms range and 1.1.168.192 in the 200-400ms range – i.e., the reverse of the computer.

10.0.0.1 has the same basic story except:

• My computer can only ping 1.0.0.10, again getting a response from 10.0.0.1
• My phone can only ping 10.0.0.1

Both averaging 7ms.

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I'm connected over Wi-Fi. My wireless card is ASUS PCE-AC56 AC1300. The router I'm connected to corresponds to the address I'm pinging. Both are broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal.

I pinged the inverse because when I pinged 192.168.1.1 it read

Reply from 1.1.168.192

and thought it would work some kind of magic. Apparently it 'worked', but if 1.x.x.x is reserved for Asia: that makes it even stranger that I got a better ping from it.

The Xfinity router is plugged into the Linksys router as well as a Vonage phone line. The Linksys router was plugged into the phone line, which I swapped to the Xfinity router/modem. I think it helped some.

Both have DHCP enabled on IPV4 and IPV6 They both have 5 devices connected, but none are active except for the computer/phone that I am using.

What other information is needed to troubleshoot this? I'm really at a brick wall.

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Here is a transcript from cmd using command:

ping 192.168.1.1 >Pings.txt
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.1.168.192: bytes=32 time=267ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Reply from 1.1.168.192: bytes=32 time=269ms TTL=44
Reply from 1.1.168.192: bytes=32 time=295ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 267ms, Maximum = 295ms, Average = 277ms

I'm running Windows 10 Pro.

Also, here's me running the inverse IP:

Pinging 1.1.168.192 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 1.1.168.192:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms