Ping issues

[Thisonepotato]

Hi all, will start with I am not clued up on networking other than plug and play.

We are noticing really high pings when my son is playing fifa and on speed test. Power lines don’t seem to want to work in his room.

I think our package is 500 down and 30 down. generally on wifi in the living room i’ll get 210 down on 5ghz and 30 up.

I am guessing it’s set up and / or quality of gear and / or number of devices causing it.

Set up is ONT to TPLink Archer C6 1200. Unfortunately this is in a small under stairs cupboard as that is where the ONT is. Printer is also in there. House is not big.

Attached to this at any one time is:

2 iphones (presume 2 Apple watches too)
3 ipads
1 PS5
1 Switch
1 Firestick
5 Alexa’s
1 Printer

TP Link Power line with:

Sky Q
1 PS5
Sonos Beam with 2 play 1’s wirelessly

TP Link AC1200 WIFI extender as an extender with

2 x ring door bells
1 rink camera
1 Target smart dart

How can I resolve or improve the issue.

The ONT or Router can’t move yet. When
we get the downstairs renovated I will put down cables so I can have the router in the open.

Thanks

[Mr Pointy]

Which part of the is getting high pings? All sections or the PS5 hanging off the Powerline extender?

Try splitiing the kit up between the 2.4MHzx & 5 Mhz bands - maybe create different SSIDs & lock each item to one ot the other. Get the PS5 & Sky Q off the Powerline as well - you've got the highest bandwidth devices on the worst connection hardware.

[Thisonepotato]

Thanks. Ping on power line to the ps5 is fine. The game is telling us it sits around 17ms in game and is 5 bars green. Ping is temperamental on both 2.4 and 5.

[Captain_Morgan]

It’s unclear what the issue is.

If the ps5 is acceptable from a ping perspective then what device is being used to play games.

How is it connected to the network.

I believe you are running WiFi extenders, if so what devices, how many & where.

[gangzoom]

Thisonepotato said:

Thanks. Ping on power line to the ps5 is fine. The game is telling us it sits around 17ms in game and is 5 bars green. Ping is temperamental on both 2.4 and 5.

If you are seeing a laggy gaming experience than the numbers mean little, it's almost certainly your having dropped packets (inconsistent network).

I just upgraded from our mesh WiFi router from WiFi 5 (AC) to WiFi 6, the speed tests don't show any difference between the WiFi setups but the actual user experience is noticeably better on WiFi 6 than 5 especially for gaming with GeForceNow. Absolutely zero stuttering and far less 'packet loss' warnings (zero infact on WiFi 6). This is most noticeable when other people in the house are also streaming/watching stuff at the same time connected to the same node.

If you already have an extender than clearly the WiFi signal from the router isn't good enough already, have a look at the 'Weapons grade' WiFi thread. Loads of advice on there, the short summary is the latest WiFi standards running on a good mesh kit nearly makes even needing ethernet redundant!!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Yesterday was too nicer a day not to sit in the garden, been able to play Cyberpunk 2077 on max settings streamed over WiFi to the Quest 3 headset feels a bit like Voodo magic, but actually it's like making use of 4 year old WiFi technology that's already now been superceded! There really is no reason to mess with Poweline adaptors these days.

[thebraketester]

Your posts are not 100% clear but it sounds like it could be a QOS issue

[Glade]

I have a TP link router.

At one point there was a firmware bug so check if your router/firmware had any issues and upgrade/downgrade as required.

Then, I had bad latency using the TP extenders... They are fine for stuff where it isn't critical but they definitely introduce issues for gaming.

I'm the end, while we were redecorating and the carpets were up I drilled though the floor and put an Ethernet cable in to my gaming PC. Best thing I ever did.

[Glade]

Also... Your ping and packet loss can vary over time. On my PC I had to install "ping plotter" app to monitor my connection... Not sure if the PS5 has an equivalent.

I could be fine then suddenly have latency spikes which is what you feel on the game.

I would eliminate as much as possible between the PS5 and the connection.