Everincreasing Ping Times

[Edward J]

Hello All-

I have a tried several diffent installs of RealTek drivers, and different hardware, still this issue persists.

 

After a clean boot into Windows 10, my ping to local gateway is 3ms.
There are 3 hops totaling less than 150' between each switch.
Testing at each switch with a seperate laptop is less than 1ms.

Why is it that my ping to gateway, over time, will increase.
Regularly to about 15ms and rarely to around 50ms.

I am running MS! AX88 with an AMD A7 and 32 gig of ram.

I also run 3 monitors off of the built in Radeon on the CPU.

I have not found an adjustment to firewall, registry, or seperate browser cache that will have an effect.
The biggest impact appears to be in a voip service I run. the audio is constantly 'choppy'

 

I look forward to your suggestions as to possible unicorns that must be purged.

 

Thank in advance,

 

Ed

 

[Falcon1986]

44 minutes ago, Edward J said:

Why is it that my ping to gateway, over time, will increase.
Regularly to about 15ms and rarely to around 50ms.

That’s not unusual and that kind of latency is not very high, actually.

 

Some questions:

1. Are these measurements all done via a hardline/ethernet connection into the network?
2. Do you have any wireless devices? Are any other devices connected to the same network (not only computers, but smartphones, tablets, IoT gadgets)?
3. A sketch of your network layout with the specific makes/models of network hardware would be good to have.
4. Are your ethernet runs free of damage, sharp turns, etc. and of good quality with proper RJ45 termination?

SmallNetBuilder recently posted a very extensive article explaining the causes of WiFi ping spikes and possible solutions. If your network is completely wired, then you don’t need to worry about those things, but even if part of your network has a WiFi component, the recommendations could be useful.

 

45 minutes ago, Edward J said:

The biggest impact appears to be in a voip service I run. the audio is constantly 'choppy'

That might be a sign that you should prioritize VoIP traffic at the router. Look into your router’s QoS settings.

[Edward J]

There are many wifi devices on the network, and ALL of the switches are 1 gig.
There are no wifi adapters on this machine.

 

[Falcon1986]

1 hour ago, Edward J said:

There are many wifi devices on the network, and ALL of the switches are 1 gig.
There are no wifi adapters on this machine.

OK. So while this machine might be directly wired into the network, it’s the same network that multiple wireless clients are accessing. The wireless clients or APs can be responsible. WiFi is, after all, just a “gateway” to a wired network.

 

2 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

A sketch of your network layout with the specific makes/models of network hardware would be good to have.

Anything???

 

2 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

Are your ethernet runs free of damage, sharp turns, etc. and of good quality with proper RJ45 termination?

What about this???

 

Is this in a home setup or business/work? 150 feet of ethernet between switches is quite long for a home.

 

2 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

That might be a sign that you should prioritize VoIP traffic at the router. Look into your router’s QoS settings.

And this???