Netflix and lag

[radiantai2001]

Whenever my mom is watching Netflix, or my brother is playing PS4, my ping gets unbearably high in CS:GO and I don't know how to fix it, I'm using an Arris SBG6700-AC router currently, and I connect through wifi. What should I do/buy to fix this? would Ethernet help? What about a Tri-band router?

[Lurick]

Are the streaming over wireless too?

If so then going wired would definitely help.

[Billy_Mays]

Internet speeds? (Google internet speed test)

[typographie]

14 minutes ago, mdthompson2001 said:

would Ethernet help?

Maybe, but it's probably just a lack of bandwidth to do all of those things at once. Back when I had a 10 Mbps down/1 Mbps up connection, the same thing used to happen to me. The solution in my case was faster internet service.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/

[radiantai2001]

@Billy_Mays here's a speedtest, we're paying for 60mbps so idk why I'm only getting 40 rn, because my mom's not here and my brother's only playing mario maker.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, mdthompson2001 said:

@Billy_Mays here's a speedtest, we're paying for 60mbps so idk why I'm only getting 40 rn, because my mom's not here and my brother's only playing mario maker.

Is that a local one?

[radiantai2001]

@Billy_Mays Idk where Germantown is but I'm in WI

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, mdthompson2001 said:

@Billy_Mays Idk where Germantown is but I'm in WI

Ok Mario Maker doesnt take up 20mbps and is anything downloading in the background?

[Lurick]

5 minutes ago, mdthompson2001 said:

@Billy_Mays here's a speedtest, we're paying for 60mbps so idk why I'm only getting 40 rn, because my mom's not here and my brother's only playing mario maker

Even 40Mbps is more than enough to stream and game to several computers at once.

 

Is everything wireless or is the gaming and streaming done over wired and you're on wireless?

[radiantai2001]

@Lurick Everything is wireless

[radiantai2001]

@Billy_Mays I closed out of everything on by brother's laptop and turned off the ps4 before doing that test, and currently nothing else is connected and in use, so there shouldn't be anything other than mario maker running.

[Lurick]

4 minutes ago, mdthompson2001 said:

@Lurick Everything is wireless

That would explain it.

Since wireless can only send or receive and have multiple heavy bandwidth things on the network can bog it down. If I remember right, wireless is essentially divided into time slices and the more data being sent the more slices it will consume and in addition it can only send or receive, not both, so if someone is sending or receiving everything else has to wait. You don't have that with ethernet so if you can hook up via wired then you shouldn't have any more issues.

[radiantai2001]

@Lurick ok, thanks for the help, I'll connect my pc to Ethernet.