High latency/ping to local gateway WHILE STREAMING [wireless]

Recently I've become fed up with my wireless internet and want to identify the problem. I don't have a patch cord yet to test a direct connection but so far every computer I've tested has reported high latency while trying to ping the wireless gateway (192.168.0.1).

Here is a ping test result on the computer I'm at now: http://pastebin.com/JQj2dPy6

Keep in mind my desktop computer is currently streaming a 1080p live stream from Twitch. Is this the sole reason my gateway is taking so long to respond? My connection to the WAN is set at 30Mbs download and 5Mbs upload, so why would a 1080p stream (estimating 10Mbs download) slow down my local network?

Here is a picture from inSSIDer 2.1 showing the wireless networks in my area. Everyone is stacked on channel 6 with one network on channel 11 while MINE is alone on channel 1.

http://i.imgur.com/h0ls973.png

Any ideas or help is appreciated!

Chris

Posted 2013-02-18T19:20:17.043

Reputation: 11

2pinging a gateway is not necessarily an indication of the operation of the gateway or its speed. The implementation of ping by many networking companies, treat this now as a very low priority task. Thus, a ping time does not translate into gateway throughput and you should not count on this as a performance estimator. – mdpc – 2013-02-18T19:26:06.150

Thank you. What kinds of things should I be looking at instead? Should I ping www.google.com and a few other popular sites? What range of ping times, acceptable dropped packets, etc. is within norm? :O – Chris – 2013-02-18T20:57:05.590

High latency/ping to local gateway WHILE STREAMING [wireless]

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