Late Night Ping in Video Games

[Aleksbgbg]

I use Virgin Media, my parents pay about £50 per month for shitty TV programs and worse internet.

 

Download speeds are about 3MB/s

 

Ping in games is usually ~33, not complaining up to now, however at night time I get spikes of up to 800 ping, with consistent 200 and above.

 

Is there solutions to this or is it 100% the provider? I didn't have this before (last year).

[Dabombinable]

4 minutes ago, Aleksbgbg said:

I use Virgin Media, my parents pay about £50 per month for shitty TV programs and worse internet.

 

Download speeds are about 3MB/s

 

Ping in games is usually ~33, not complaining up to now, however at night time I get spikes of up to 800 ping, with consistent 200 and above.

 

Is there solutions to this or is it 100% the provider? I didn't have this before (last year).

Are you using wifi? And if so how many networks is your computer picking up?

[Trikein]

3MB or 3Mb? 1MB=8Mb

 

Also, what modem/router/gateway do you have? 

 

Last, what are you playing on? Wired desktop? Wireless console? Etc?

[Sauron]

It's probably just the provider cheaping out. if it didn't happen last year, check if you changed anything since

[Otomaru]

Many ISPs switch to cheeper routes and methods during nights. If everything is set up respectfully by the ISP you should get only better connection during night cause there´s less conjunction.

[Aleksbgbg]

16 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Are you using wifi? And if so how many networks is your computer picking up?

 

12 minutes ago, Trikein said:

3MB or 3Mb? 1MB=8Mb

 

Also, what modem/router/gateway do you have? 

 

Last, what are you playing on? Wired desktop? Wireless console? Etc?

Wired dekstop, regular Virgin media router. 3MB, like I said

5 minutes ago, Sauron said:

It's probably just the provider cheaping out. if it didn't happen last year, check if you changed anything since

Sure thing!

[Dabombinable]

Just now, Aleksbgbg said:

 

Wired dekstop, regular Virgin media router. 3MB, like I said

Sure thing!

In that case, your provider's network is probably under a lot of strain-because Optus over here has similar issues (though exacerbated by wifi in my case by around 3-47 ping).

[Trikein]

4 minutes ago, Aleksbgbg said:

 

Wired dekstop, regular Virgin media router. 3MB, like I said

Sure thing!

I meant the model number. How would I know what a "regular" Virgin router is? You want me to search around instead of you just lifting it up and reading the model number? Know what? Never-mind.