ping is awful

[chosen]

So I went to play a round of Fortnite and I noticed my ping is always above 80 or 90 and sometimes hits 140. yesterday it was perfectly fine but today its not going down. I restarted my router but still getting high ping... I am connected via Ethernet I dont know whats happening... if you could help it would be greatly appreciated! Oh and my internet speed went way down is there a way I can fix it?

[Fasauceome]

sometimes my router will just screw up and slow down. How long has this been going on?

[Snipergod87]

I would recommend contacting your ISP possible, if latency is up and speed is down they might need to fix something.

[chosen]

2 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

sometimes my router will just screw up and slow down. How long has this been going on?

its been going on for about 3-4 hours.

 

[chosen]

I should add the fact that there are only about 2-3 devices active on the internet right now mainly the tv for other family members and some phones and then my pc.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, chosen said:

I should add the fact that there are only about 2-3 devices active on the internet right now mainly the tv for other family members and some phones and then my pc.

have you reset the modem?

[chosen]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

have you reset the modem?

I did about 5 minutes ago

[Car712]

36 minutes ago, chosen said:

So I went to play a round of Fortnite and I noticed my ping is always above 80 or 90 and sometimes hits 140. yesterday it was perfectly fine but today its not going down. I restarted my router but still getting high ping... I am connected via Ethernet I dont know whats happening... if you could help it would be greatly appreciated! Oh and my internet speed went way down is there a way I can fix it?

If you WiFi is much slower than usual, (speedtest wise) then I would definitely contact your ISP, but this is most likely a issue with Fortnites servers as, ping is the measure of how fast (time wise) data sent from your system can get to a remote server, ping is not necessarily speed of your connection. For example, a server that is in the same city as you are will get a MUCH lower ping than a server that is all the way over in germany or something, even if your connection is 5-10MBPS. Connection speed shouldent *really* affect the ping.

 

So if you generally get a low ping, but all of a sudden start getting very high pings, its most likely an issue with the remote server, usually not your connection, or router.

 

But then again, it *could* just be your router, they do get old and break after a while.

[chosen]

ok so I went to see what my internet was at and so I usually should get 10Mbp/s but Im only getting 2. my ping is worse this time without going under 90...