About a month ago a purchased an Ethernet powerline adapter on Amazon because my house is not wired for Ethernet and I was also receiving extremely poor results with WiFi from my ASUS Maximus X Hero. The exact model is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EO5A4TI/ref=oh_aui... . This has worked out very well for the past month and gave me a consistent 30 Mbps up and 30 Mbps down, although I do pay for 60 up and 60 down, but it was enough for my needs and I was happy. It was also a very consistent connection with very little jitter and low ping, which is what I'm most concerned about because I am into the Esport title League of Legends. With it I received a very consistent 11ms ping in game. All went well until I played my first LoL game today and noticed I was getting awful lag spikes and a couple disconnections from the game. I was receiving anywhere from my usual 11ms ping to upwards of 2000ms. Because of this I began to investigate what was going wrong with my internet connection. I noticed that the LED indicator on the powerline adapter that indicates the connection to the second one where my modem is had recently turned from green to red. Green indicated a strong connection, where as red indicated a poor connectionAfter reading a few articles on powerline adapter issues I began to test whether or not certain electrical things were interfering with my powerline adapter. I came to the conclusion that the problem is stemming from the room my PC is in, not something somewhere else in the house. I know this because any outlet in my room is giving the same connection issue, and when I got an extension cord and tested other outlets in different rooms of my house they all worked perfectly like before my issue arose. I should also note that this room is on its own circuit breaker like every other room in the house, the room is also located on the second floor where as the modem is on the first floor, and also the fact that my house is only 3 years old, so I don't think its due to old/faulty wiring.After further testing I found out that there was a certain electronic in my room that was causing "the bulk" of the issue. This was an LED light strip that is hooked up to my desk. The exact model is here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075H1TVFH/ref=oh_aui... . If I turn off the light strip my up/down speeds improved, and if I completely unplugged the strip my up/down speeds would improve even more to about 30 up and 20 down, but no matter what my ping and jitter never improved when I unplugged the light strip and also the LED indicator never changed from orange to green. The light strip is also on a different outlet than my powerline adapter, but my PC is on the same outlet as the powerline adapter although I already concluded that's not the issue. The powerline adapter is also hooked directly into the wall, not on a power strip. The reason I am so confused as to why this is happening is because it happened so suddenly. The adapter worked perfectly for the first day I day I installed the light strip, but the next day this all started to happen. Nothing else was changed other than adding the RGB strip too. The first day the RGB strip was on all day and the adapter worked fine, its just the next day it all went to shit.I have absolutely no idea what is going on and am not an electrical/internet expert at all so I am asking for anyone that can help me with this issue. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated sorry ahead of time for such a strange issue.
TLDR: So basically I had this Powerline adapter that worked fine for the first day after I installed a light strip, but the next day after installing this strip my internet speeds slowed down significantly and I really don't know why. Unpluggin the light strip helps the situation a little, but the speeds still aren't the same as if I used a socket in another room.
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