without Netflix... Quite different
Personally I don't use Wifi and if you want the best possible online gaming experience a wired connection beats Wifi by miles. In fact I'd opt for power line adapters before relying on Wifi for gaming.
Note your Wifi isn't your internet connection, Wifi is just a means of getting data from your internet connection to your target PC / xbox / mobile phone etc. In other words your internet connection could be rock solid with no issues and the issues are due to Wifi problems.
The only way to prove this is to connect your laptop into the Ethernet port on your router, turn Wifi off on your laptop so you're 100% sure you're using a wired connection then test again.
I don't know what Wifi controls you have or what experimentation you've done, but most Wifi access points have dual bands and a multitude of controls / options. So for example have you tried changing what Wifi channel you're using, or perhaps turning off the 2.4Ghz band or if you've got Wifi signal strength options making sure they're set to high ?
The problem could easily be a neighbor using the same Wifi channel as you, I know I can see a long list of Wifi devices on my phone, none are mine seeing as I don't use Wifi i.e. there's plenty of WiFi signal leak beyond and into your property.
Basically based on your packet loss and ping variation with your test without streaming I'd say you've either got a weak Wifi signal and / or some external interference source which could be anything from a neighbors Wifi to an electrically noisy appliance.
Thanks for the advice, I will try this and post results.
However, scrolling the forums there are loads of similar complaints with no solutions thus far.... Am a little concerned!
For this thread the page you need to look at is page 82, here @SeanD acknowledged the problem and said
" I don’t have the technical details of what the fix is however I understand that it’s both a hardware and software fix. We’re currently upgrading some hardware components within the network and we’re confident we will fix this issue."
So in theory if the above fix has been fully rolled out the ping spike issue should be resolved, which then will mean if you have ping spike problems that's going to either be your connection out of your house or your Wifi.
I will say that there's been no update on whether the hardware upgrade has been completed, no before and after tests published / put on this thread to prove the fix works. Here we've got to trust the statement from BT, it took about 1 year to produce a fix so we have to assume they've had plenty of time to test and verify the results - certainly you can say BT hasn't rushed out a fix 🙂 I hope though the fix hasn't created more odd problems with the BT network.
Being FTTP that should remove all the normal electrical interference problems / crosstalk you get with FTTC, in the balance of probabilities your problems are almost certainly going to be a Wifi issue, of course on the assumption there's no issue now with the BT infrastructure.
BT has around 9 million broadband users I believe, therefore it stands to reason they're going to have a multitude of different issues cropping up, if there's no BT infrastructure problems then these issues will be local / individual issues that should be resolved mostly by an engineer visit.
So here are the results
ethernet connected laptop not actively doing anything
Ethernet laptop watching netflix
Wifi laptop not doing anything
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Ping statistics for 151.101.192.81:
Packets: Sent = 122, Received = 117, Lost = 5 (4% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 105ms, Average = 33ms
Wifi Laptop netflix
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Request timed out.
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Ping statistics for 151.101.192.81:
Packets: Sent = 259, Received = 253, Lost = 6 (2% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 362ms, Average = 29ms
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my conclusions
- the ethernet quiet i think is erroneous as im doing it again and it is lovely and settled at 9-11ms....must have been updating or something in the background.
- The WiFi is really poor (but full strength), i was right next to the router for this too... @2.4G, not tried 5GHz.
- ethernet streaming does still show the spikes. i ran the test without naming a file to watch the transition. it fluctuates between 9ms and 30/40ms
what are your thoughts?
As you say the quiet results are not showing a quiet connection, for a quiet / error free connection your ping will be a constant level with a few ms of variation, any single jump up either means your connection is not quiet or your connection has problems.
Streaming Netflix over an wired connection is on the border of showing an issue vs what you might expect to happen, the snippet below is concerning - indicating packet loss i.e. 'Request timed out.' means no ping reply, packet loss is going to be as bad or even worse than a higher ping for online gaming. You shouldn't be getting any packet loss over a wired connection.