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I currently live on campus, and I'm having trouble gaming on the connection here. Every time I try and play a game the ping will spike, to the point where the game will become unplayable. I've seen spikes up to 1000ms the spikes are frequent and in 5 to 10 second spikes. I've gotten different advice from different Information Technology personnel on campus.
One professional told me that nothing can be done, which confuses me because my ping in a speed test website (ex. speedtest.net) would be fine but in Discord and while playing my ping seems to spike. My networking class professor told me that I might have luck connecting to a proxy server, I cannot host a proxy on the schools network so if anybody has a good proxy site I would appreciate it so I can test his theory. The last piece of advice I got was that I should cap my upload speeds. I honestly dont know what to do at this point.
My theory is that it could be my hardware since I bought one of those OP Walmart Gaming Laptops. The price was cheap so I'm sure they cheeped out on the motherboard, which might have a crap NIC.
Marc M
Posted 2019-09-06T22:16:33.700
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Hennes high ping is bad when it is making the game unplayable every 10 seconds. 2. the game will freeze, everything will keep moving and in like 7 sec I'm either at a different spot on the map, dead, or missed a kill – Marc M – 2019-09-06T22:29:33.493
Reverse that. It is not high ping which makes the game unplayable. It is the same problem which causes high ping and the games problems. – Hennes – 2019-09-06T22:31:23.080
Welcome to SuperUser. You might have better luck at forum sites where there can be back and forth conversations. This one is designed for Q&A format, where a single brief Question gets some precise Answers – Christopher Hostage – 2019-09-06T22:31:29.137
Does your dorm room have an Ethernet jack you can use? If so, plug into Ethernet so you don't have to worry about transient problems with the wireless environment. If the ping spike problem continues while on Ethernet, run http://dslreports.com/speedtest to get your bufferbloat grade. If it's bad, read up on bufferbloat and educate your school's IT people about the need for Smart Queue Management.
– Spiff – 2019-09-06T22:55:10.220If the ping time spikes only happen on wireless, and happen at reliable intervals (like every 5 seconds as you said), then look out for things that could be causing your Wi-Fi NIC to go off-channel to scan. This could be caused by low signal strength, or by Wi-Fi geolocation tools, or by Wi-Fi network scanner apps or widgets. – Spiff – 2019-09-06T22:57:25.547
"if anybody has a good proxy site I would appreciate it so I can test his theory." - Even if you could host your own proxy, it wouldn't solve the latency problem, because the proxy would be within the same network that has the latency problem. Likewise, questions seeking service recommendations (like a proxy) are out of scope. – Ramhound – 2019-09-07T00:58:30.503