Can anybody help me with an internet problem?
During the daytime, my internet is fine, no problems at all.
However at night time, it will spike about every minute or so, like i will be at 30 ping for awhile then it will just shoot up to 180-200 for a couple seconds then go back down. This happens usually 7pm-early morning.
Any help would be appreciated

Contact your ISP - they might be doing maintenance or repairs to your service at night. I know they restart mine entirely at 2am every morning.

sounds like comcast

Some ISPs throttle your internet during peak hours. Call them and tell them about the problem, hear them out with their bullshit explanation, when it doesn't get any better in coming nights, threaten to change providers.

Cool, thanks all

I had the exact same problem with Time Warner, I just called and they fixed it. But make sure to call while it is happening or they wont help

thanks

I have the same problem with Comcast sometimes. It stops after a few nights, then does it again. I can sometimes get it to stop by restarting my router, but not always.

I can't threaten to switch providers because Comcast is the only company that will provide service to my area.

Abramelin_ wrote:

I have the same problem with Comcast sometimes. It stops after a few nights, then does it again. I can sometimes get it to stop by restarting my router, but not always.

I can't threaten to switch providers because Comcast is the only company that will provide service to my area.

Exactly my experience with comcast.

It sucks. They're not obligated at all to provide good service because I live in a shitcan town where they're the only option. They'd be forced into providing somewhat decent service if they had some competition, but nope.

fuck comcast

I've had the same problem for the past 2 years. Luckily I'm at college most of the time so I don't have to deal with it.

BUT FiOS IS DIGGING LINES IN MY TOWN FINALLY PRAISE JESUS

same thing happens to me its Comcast sucking dick

Happened to me when i had AT&T. They wanted to charge over $1000 to rewire my entire house...what a joke. Went to comcast = problem solved. It can either be your wiring (highly unlikely) or your ISP having shit servers and most likely they'll say it's your fault. You have to cross examine the fuck out of those people to get the truth sometimes. If you can, switch ISPs.

going on what dave said try using another ethernet port in your house. In my old house they wired it pretty shotty so that the ports upstairs had like 4-5 splits between them and the main one. It was fine during the day but at peak hours my ping went to shit fast.

Giffy has a point. That can also work. If you can, I also suggest connecting directly to your modem and seeing if that fixes the issue.

Misinformation about how cable internet works pisses me off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=276618

If your connection is fucked past 7pm there's a reason for that, too many people using bandwidth. There is nothing you can do about it without them upgrading their hardware(extremely unlikely and extremely expensive), and nobody cares but you cause everyone else is fine as long as they can watch their netflix(the probable reason your having these problems by the way) and browse their facebook.

Abramelin_ wrote:

They'd be forced into providing somewhat decent service if they had some competition, but nope.

fuck comcast

isps

competition

Jazzy wrote:

Misinformation about how cable internet works pisses me off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=276618

If your connection is fucked past 7pm there's a reason for that, too many people using bandwidth. There is nothing you can do about it without them upgrading their hardware(extremely unlikely and extremely expensive), and nobody cares but you cause everyone else is fine as long as they can watch their netflix(the probable reason your having these problems by the way) and browse their facebook.

Um... I'm the only one that uses the internet that late. I have a 2G and a 5G, the 5G is the one i use, while everyone else in the family uses 2G... but even when theyre all off pc/we don't use netflix anymore, its still laggy as hell

brizz wrote:

Jazzy wrote:

Misinformation about how cable internet works pisses me off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_modem_termination_system

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=276618

If your connection is fucked past 7pm there's a reason for that, too many people using bandwidth. There is nothing you can do about it without them upgrading their hardware(extremely unlikely and extremely expensive), and nobody cares but you cause everyone else is fine as long as they can watch their netflix(the probable reason your having these problems by the way) and browse their facebook.

Um... I'm the only one that uses the internet that late. I have a 2G and a 5G, the 5G is the one i use, while everyone else in the family uses 2G... but even when theyre all off pc/we don't use netflix anymore, its still laggy as hell

I think you misunderstood his links/post - bandwidth is shared (usually) amongst multiple homes. It's not just your usage.

Nobody else in my neighorhood has access to our internet

brizz wrote:

Nobody else in my neighborhood has access to our internet

You again misunderstand me and didn't read my links. Total bandwidth is shared by everyone connected to a single fiber modulator. Did you know that every single modem is sent a signal at boot to cap your bandwidth(this signal is sent from a TFTP server)? That coax wire can handle way more bandwidth than the 10Mb your getting, but that's not the point. Point being is that when all the homes around you are watching netflix it fucks with "your" internet.

So the teamliquid link is the most useful and hopefully this will get everyone to shut the fuck and understand that our Cable internet infrastructure is a god damn engineering marvel. Just be happy you have decent internet in the US and stop fucking bitching to your cable companies, can't do shit unless you and your whole community want to pay more for your internet(and they don't). And there is a reason at why competition doesn't exist, some is monopoly laws, most of it is just that it frankly Isn't as profitable to make a more reliable system cause most people don't frankly give a shit about latency.

shut up jazzy nobody likes you

Brizz who is your service provider? It it's TDS (Telephone Data Systems) I can help.

Not them

Anybody from Chicago and using Comcast? My internet is totally fucked up today.

Tracing route to google.com [74.125.225.34]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 5 ms 2 ms 3 ms MN-700 [192.168.2.1]
2 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.1
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 439 ms 38 ms 55 ms te-2-2-ur02.chicago301.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.86.115.73]
5 84 ms 22 ms 15 ms te-1-8-0-7-ar01.area4.il.chicago.comcast.net [68.87.230.189]
6 892 ms 15 ms 17 ms pos-3-9-0-0-cr01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.90.45]
7 1976 ms * * pos-1-6-0-0-pe01.350ecermak.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.130]
8 403 ms 21 ms 27 ms 66.208.228.202
9 34 ms 17 ms 17 ms 209.85.254.120
10 17 ms 25 ms 25 ms 209.85.250.28
11 16 ms 14 ms 15 ms ord08s06-in-f2.1e100.net [74.125.225.34]

Trace complete.

This is fucking terrible.

do you know any local servers? local as in attached or near your network?. Like a local business that is running comcast business? if you do, ping -t thier website, make sure no one on your network is doing ANYTHING. Just do a quick mac address filter on your router to do that. Then see if the ping is low and stable. If its high, and not stable, that is your local internet fucking up.

good shortcuts to have(i have these on hotkeys)

Ping -t (router)
ping -t a local computer on the network
ping -t local server
ping -t googles public dns(8.8.8.8 it will always be stable)
ping -t a friends modem(He owns business and is static)

the most reasonable are the first 4.

use those to see how shits going down.

I have cox cable by the way.