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Monday, December 30th, 2024

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Intermittent Latency Spikes

Equipment: xFi Gateway
Connection Type: Ethernet 
Download Speed: 500Mbps
Upload Speed: 100Mbps

I've started playing some games again recently and have noticed that my ping will occasionally go from around ~30ms(+-10) to around ~300ms. This results in highly noticeable lag. Ruining the experience for some games, while also making others completely unplayable. 

Latency test on speed.cloudflare showing some spikes:


Latency test on Testmy also showing some spikes:




ping -t www.comcast.net output: 

Pinging ---------------------------- with 32 bytes of data:
Ping statistics for --------------------:
    Packets: Sent = 310, Received = 308, Lost = 2 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 276ms, Average = 25ms

tracert www.comcast.net output:

Tracing route to -------------------------------
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  
  2    11 ms    12 ms    12 ms  
  3    11 ms    12 ms    13 ms  
  4     9 ms    13 ms    13 ms  
  5     9 ms    12 ms    12 ms  
  6     *       16 ms    17 ms  
  7    14 ms    17 ms    17 ms  
  8    15 ms    16 ms     *     
  9   257 ms   123 ms   307 ms  
 10    18 ms    16 ms    13 ms  

Trace complete.

Tracing route to -----------------------------
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  
  2    11 ms    12 ms    12 ms  
  3    12 ms    11 ms    12 ms  
  4    12 ms     8 ms     8 ms  
  5    14 ms     9 ms    13 ms  
  6    17 ms     *      142 ms  
  7    18 ms    17 ms    14 ms  
  8    17 ms    17 ms     *     
  9   114 ms    66 ms    72 ms  
 10    16 ms    17 ms    17 ms  

Trace complete.


Although the spikes do show through external testing, it does seem to be more frequent in-game. Spikes appeared when testing on multiple devices. 
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