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After changing computer settings using a (guide) My ping has tripled from 30 to 110.

oofman
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I followed a video tutorial to reduce ping and all of the changes made sense, but after i made them my ping was really high. I changed them back and my ping didn't change back with it. Please explain.

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11 minutes ago, oofman said:

I followed a video tutorial to reduce ping and all of the changes made sense, but after i made them my ping was really high. I changed them back and my ping didn't change back with it. Please explain.

Your ping is going to constantly change. Even if you have a very fast connection.  

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On 1/20/2024 at 11:40 PM, oofman said:

I followed a video tutorial to reduce ping and all of the changes made sense, but after i made them my ping was really high. I changed them back and my ping didn't change back with it. Please explain.

We'd have to know what you changed, but generally speaking nothing you change on your PC should make any difference to your ping/latency - its entirely down to your ISP, how you are connected to them and what route traffic takes through and beyond your ISPs network.

Router:  Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz)
WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX
ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
Upgrading Laptop/Desktop CNVIo WiFi 5 cards to PCIe WiFi6e/7

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On 1/20/2024 at 6:40 PM, oofman said:

I followed a video tutorial to reduce ping and all of the changes made sense, but after i made them my ping was really high.

Ping your router.

 

Open windows command prompt as admin (to have access to more options and command switches).

 

It should ask if you would like to open as admin if you right click command prompt in search, or right click windows start menu squares button to choose it there.

 

Commands to type

 

ipconfig

 

This shows your pc ip address and importantly, gateway address.  The gateway is your wifi router or network router.

 

Ping this, to get a sense of how long the ping is locally, and how much it changes.

 

ping 192.168.1.1

 

Your gateway address may be different.  To see more than four pings,

 

ping -n 20 192.168.1.1

 

You can also use -t to disable timeout, which will ping until you cancel the command with control c, or exit command prompt.

 

Pinging a website will be very inconsistent, changing by the minute and is not a reliable measurement of network performance.  If hundreds of websites are consistently higher ping vs before you changed settings, then you have an idea of latency / ping.

 

ping websitename.com/net/org

 

Don't overuse the ping command on websites, four should be plenty.  Try several websites and write down their pings.

 

Please list what settings you changed.

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How bad is e-waste?  Listen to that Joe Rogan episode.

 

"Now you get what you want, but do you want more?
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Windows 11 will just force business to "recycle" "obscolete" hardware.  Microsoft definitely isn't bothered by this at all, and seems to want hardware produced just a few years ago to be considered obsolete.  They have also not shown any interest nor has any other company in a similar financial position, to help increase tech recycling whatsoever.  Windows 12 might be cloud-based and be a monthly or yearly fee.

 

Software suggestions


Just get f.lux [Link removed due to forum rules] so your screen isn't bright white at night, a golden orange in place of stark 6500K bluish white.

released in 2008 and still being improved.

 

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, Choose dev tools amd click preview mode.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger addons can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.  Most software in the repository only requires Android 5 and 6!

 

I recommend firewall apps (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirect all dns requests on android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu/Debian, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to any device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.  This style of network filtration is being overridden by software updates on some devices, forcing a backup dns provuder, such as google dns, when built in dns requests are not connecting.  Without a complete firewall setup, dns redirection itself is no longer always effective.

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