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What could cause random ping spikes related to the computer, NOT connection?

BARCØDE KILLER·5/21/2019, 12:36:48 AM·1 votes·2,408 views

I know there is gonna be alot of "get a better connection" etc, but its not my connection.

Me, and 2 of my brothers all play league in the house. (not at the same time usually.) One brother has a fancy gaming desktop, has no issues of course, windows 10 I believe. My other brother has an 8 year old laptop that is still hanging in there, but he never experiences lag. They both play on the WIFI.

I have a somewhat new laptop running windows 10, and I have an issue with these random ping spikes EVERY GAME. They dont last super long, but every 2 mins or so i get a ping jump to 200-300 for a second or 2. We have a 1000mb connection, so its not the internet itself, and I play with wifi, or with LAN cable. (tried lan to fix the ping spike, didnt work)

Any idea what could cause this? Tried googling, and all i found was stuff related to poor connection, which i do not believe to be the case. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

5 Comments

Saezio5/21/2019, 1:31:01 AM2 votes

You may wanna look up videos about setting priorities to your modem. So it allows lol to use most of the connection, because sometimes that lag can be caused by the initiation of any app/program/start of stream whatever. But if your router is the default one that is provided by the ISP you might be out of luck and it might not support configuring priorities (can't remember the exact english name of the procedure) and you might end up buying a new router.

Good luck.

P.S. Also, make sure your power settings(or power plan) on your laptop are on "High performance"

Sanghelios5/21/2019, 5:28:33 AM2 votes

Check if there's a program/process running in the background that does periodic scans, or automated updates. (Antiviruses)