04-04-2024 12:07 AM
I've moved from BT to EE last month (2.5 weeks ago) and had nothing but issues.
The main issue is, that every 15-60s my ping spikes from 30ms to anywhere from 100 to 600ms.
My main use of broadband is gaming, so this issue is a massive one for me.
I've tried about everything you can imagine of.
Starting with simple things such as resetting modem, restarting PC, updating drivers, to more advanced troubleshooting steps such as messing around in admin panel of the modem switching off 2.4, 5ghz, ipv4/ipv6, changing from wi-fi 6 perfomance to wi-fi 6 compatibility and wi-fi 5. I've tried all the ipconfig & netsh CMD commands. I've tried using DNS, changing wi-fi driver modes to b/n/g/ac, etc. Rescanned channels, turned off all other devices in the house so that the PC is the only one connected. I even purchased a new wifi adapter since my last one was wi-fi 5 and the new one is wi-fi 6 with 2 antennas, still the exact same issue. I also purchased EE WiFi optimizer addon, which hasn't helped at all.
I even reinstalled my windows, and the issue persists.
I've never ever ran into any issues with my BT broadband and have been having these issues with EE since day 1.
I've rang up technical support, was told there was a missaligment of broadband speeds on my account and that they're confident this was the reason - no improvement at all and this was done on Saturday. I was then advised to wait till mid of this week since the broadband is new and might need some time to adjust, this hasn't helped either.
Looked around in this forum and this seems to be a very common problem with a lot of users reporting the same exact issue that I am having, so I'm kinda hopeless but still giving it a shot here.
The only thing I havn't tried is ethernet cable connection, but to be honest ethernet connection via cable is not suitable to me and I definitely WiFi connection to be stable.
09-08-2024 04:22 PM
I’m currently with BT and I’ve had no issues. They’re the same company now but I’m not sure if EE use the same router as BT but this could be a simple router issue. I’ve been reading up about reducing ping spikes and found that a lot of the time it’s the router not managing the bandwidth at all.
If you have multiple devices connected, things such as phones using cloud services like iCloud and Google Drive can affect it a fair bit. I’d recommend running some ping test with everything disconnected and stressing the network each time to work out the ping is coming from. If you can work out what the ping is to you’re router and then to your device preferably a pc then you should be able work what’s causing it and delve deeper into the rabbit hole of networks.
I found this website quite useful.