High ping later in the day

[Kevin68]

Hi, I've been having problems with high ping later in the day which goes from 60ms to over 200ms, Which is making online gaming impossible, speed is fine and i'm getting 50-60mbps, nobody else is on the network apart from me.

Thanks

[mikeliuk]

Hi @Kevin68 ,

I've found with EE that throttling tends to give lower loaded latency (e.g. 60 ms to 200 ms) as compared to unthrottled loaded latency (e.g. 600 ms and above) after I exhaust my 200 GB allowance and fall onto Reserve Data which is throttled to 2 Mbps.

I would be interested to know whether others who are throttled after hitting the 600 GB fair usage limit also observe impacts to latency.

Even the good ping values reported here seem somewhat high and I usually see around 35 ms unloaded and wired servers (wired near the 4G router) can see as low as 22 ms but with a good amount of jitter.

[Kevin68]

I would actually sacrifice half my speed if I could get a 60ms stable ping.

Could the mast be the problem? As everything was fine up until about a month and a half ago.

[mikeliuk]

Hi @Kevin68 ,

I recommend to check the OpenSignal app to see what the average ping/latency is in your area compared to other networks.

As you have three routers to test, it's likely you are observing something real but the evening deterioration seems like a really strange effect. You could try the best router in different locations and perhaps some less logical locations. I found that moving from a raised position in the centre of the room to a sheltered floor position improved the SINR from around 5 dBm to upwards of 10 dBm (probably due to line of sight effects).

You may wish to look into network monitoring tools which will report ping to a certain endpoint throughout the day so you can see how latency changes. The tool depends on your platform but OpenNMS and related tools may be a starting point. It's likely many free network monitoring tools will exist for your platforms.