I'm in south Wales.
There are a lot of threads here that aren't the same issue and I'm coming to believe that my issue is now only to do with Twitch, after they made some changes on my line (that didn't fix Twitch) has seemingly fixed ping spiking in games when watching a Mixer stream (1.45MB/s).
I use Battlefield 5 as a testing environment for real UDP / TCP traffic instead of solely relying on PingPlotter.
Here are two scuffed GIF's I quickly look from a recording of BF5 showing the network variation difference between Twitch and Mixer (Twitch 800KB/s and Mixer 1.4MB/s)
Twitch:
https://gyazo.com/b11ce4b6f97c956434d968ef19af3dab
Mixer:
https://gyazo.com/31e7f056b6ce312768d110ac3d7b812b
As you can see the BLUE "Netw Vrtn" stays at between 1.4ms and 1.8ms during the Mixer stream and spikes up and down on the Twitch stream.
I'm adding some ping plotters of ONLY BT's network here too. The 7th Hop is BT's last node before it goes out to wherever it goes so the destination on these PingPlotters is within BT's network. I'll also put the Destination HOP's IP details so you can see it's a BT node.
Can't find any other contradictory information here to say it doesn't belong to BT so as far as I'm concerned it belongs to BT.
As you can see from the PingPlotter results this IP address is the destination IP and the last BT HOP.
Below is the Twitch Low Latency PingPlotter Result as you can see all over the shop max pings are pretty high compared to current.
On the other hand the below is a PingPlotter showing a result while watching mixer Low Latency, which uses more bandwidth. (Don't know why the BT Hub stopped responding to ICMP.)
So yeah I guess this is an update now, since I tested like this, this morning for the first time in a while. My issue is different from most peoples, and honestly, ping spiking when first starting a Netflix "stream" is standard, and you shouldn't really be surprised that it happens, for all those complaining that it does.
Anyway, time to get BT to monitor Twitch packets and compare them to Mixer packets and how they're interacting / being shaped within the network, OR to find out if it's a Twitch problem.
So Executive Customer Tech Support are comming to the end of what they're able to do for me to fix the issue at the present time.
This happened today, after seeing the build in progress for about 2 months.
Wonder if trying the 300Mbps FTTP package BT has would be a soultion to the issues. Worth the risk?
Maybe it is. We'll see what Exec Tech can do.
So we got FTTP today and are now on the 300/50 package for the time being.
Happy to announce, the end of the whole ping when streaming.
Highest jitter I see in Battlefiled 5 now is about 4ms, and thats not consistent either it's more around 1-2ms which keeps the network issue icons at bay and games feeling much better to play.
