Over the last few weeks it has become very difficult to game online due to random spikes of high latency around 200ms. It doesn't seem to be related to usage or number of devices.
This happens on a wired connection seemingly randomly, on average I'd say once a minute there is a large spike.
- Wired into a powerful PC
- 600M package
- Speeds are ok @ around 350 to 400 (not exactly the 600 I purchased but I digress)
- Latency has very high spikes
BQM Graph
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/3c41d393af1f3f7821ba33c29c2368ff82cae065-08-02-2021
What's interesting is during midnight/9am there are no spikes. I turned a laptop on at 9am which was not doing anything which had nothing running and pretty much no network being used. So why would turning a laptop on cause this?
Pinging Google
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=368 ttl=116 time=27.352 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=369 ttl=116 time=19.557 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=370 ttl=116 time=20.850 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=371 ttl=116 time=39.332 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=372 ttl=116 time=28.235 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=373 ttl=116 time=31.785 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=374 ttl=116 time=21.248 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=375 ttl=116 time=20.715 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=376 ttl=116 time=259.017 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=377 ttl=116 time=150.948 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=378 ttl=116 time=25.078 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=379 ttl=116 time=45.857 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=380 ttl=116 time=22.181 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=381 ttl=116 time=20.619 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=382 ttl=116 time=24.903 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=383 ttl=116 time=26.159 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=384 ttl=116 time=27.878 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=385 ttl=116 time=21.686 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=386 ttl=116 time=23.328 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=387 ttl=116 time=31.983 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=388 ttl=116 time=19.646 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.35: icmp_seq=389 ttl=116 time=20.593 ms
Downstream
Channel Frequency (Hz) Power (dBmV) SNR (dB) Modulation Channel ID
1 | 355000000 | 7.4 | 38 | 256 qam | 28 |
2 | 203000000 | 6.5 | 38 | 256 qam | 9 |
3 | 211000000 | 6.5 | 38 | 256 qam | 10 |
4 | 219000000 | 6.9 | 38 | 256 qam | 11 |
5 | 227000000 | 6.9 | 38 | 256 qam | 12 |
6 | 235000000 | 6.9 | 38 | 256 qam | 13 |
7 | 243000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 14 |
8 | 251000000 | 7.1 | 38 | 256 qam | 15 |
9 | 259000000 | 7.1 | 38 | 256 qam | 16 |
10 | 267000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 17 |
11 | 275000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 18 |
12 | 283000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 19 |
13 | 291000000 | 6.9 | 38 | 256 qam | 20 |
14 | 299000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 21 |
15 | 307000000 | 6.5 | 38 | 256 qam | 22 |
16 | 315000000 | 6.6 | 38 | 256 qam | 23 |
17 | 323000000 | 6.8 | 38 | 256 qam | 24 |
18 | 331000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 25 |
19 | 339000000 | 7.1 | 38 | 256 qam | 26 |
20 | 347000000 | 7 | 38 | 256 qam | 27 |
21 | 363000000 | 7.5 | 38 | 256 qam | 29 |
22 | 371000000 | 8 | 38 | 256 qam | 30 |
23 | 379000000 | 8.1 | 38 | 256 qam | 31 |
24 | 387000000 | 8.3 | 38 | 256 qam | 32 |
Downstream bonded channels
Channel Locked Status RxMER (dB) Pre RS Errors Post RS Errors
1 | Locked | 38.6 | 38 | 0 |
2 | Locked | 38.6 | 33 | 0 |
3 | Locked | 38.6 | 32 | 0 |
4 | Locked | 38.6 | 30 | 0 |
5 | Locked | 38.9 | 28 | 0 |
6 | Locked | 38.6 | 32 | 0 |
7 | Locked | 38.6 | 29 | 0 |
8 | Locked | 38.9 | 25 | 0 |
9 | Locked | 38.9 | 27 | 0 |
10 | Locked | 38.9 | 24 | 0 |
11 | Locked | 38.9 | 26 | 0 |
12 | Locked | 38.9 | 23 | 0 |
13 | Locked | 38.9 | 23 | 0 |
14 | Locked | 38.9 | 26 | 0 |
15 | Locked | 38.6 | 49 | 0 |
16 | Locked | 38.6 | 61 | 0 |
17 | Locked | 38.6 | 26 | 0 |
18 | Locked | 38.9 | 35 | 0 |
19 | Locked | 38.9 | 27 | 0 |
20 | Locked | 38.9 | 44 | 0 |
21 | Locked | 38.6 | 35 | 0 |
22 | Locked | 38.9 | 34 | 0 |
23 | Locked | 38.6 | 27 | 0 |
24 | Locked | 38.9 | 28 | 0 |