My internet connection ping is fluctuating too much?

[Harris John]

my internet connection ping goes from great 44 ping to 500 ping within 15 seconds, it's been like this for 2 days now. ive tried replugging my modem, reconnecting my laptops connection. im running on my wifi connection(plugged in with an ethernet probably will solve the problem) BUT i need to run on wifi.

[Sajid]

Hi

[Rahul]

when u plug it directly on ur laptop does the ping response remain the same or change.....if its the same then its a ISP issue and if its not ,then reset your wifi completely and configure again and check

[rowlfe]

Too bad. You are a victim of the dreaded "party line effect". The likely cause is your wireless link, with a second cause being your cable broadband connection to your ISP. Wireless (and cable) uses transmitters to talk with, like a push to talk walkie talkie. You talk or you listen, but not both at the same time. So, if you want to talk, you listen and if the line is clear, you push to talk and send data. No problem. If the line is busy, you wait for it to clear and when it does, you push to talk and send data. Again, no problem. The problem comes in when someone else is waiting as you are. When the line clears, both of you push to talk, interfere with each other and neither gets through. So, you wait, and hearing no reply, you do it again, and you both key up again and stomp on each other, again. This goes on time and again until finally one of yuou gets far enough out of sync that you hear the other guy key up and are now forced to wait. This is DEAD time, when no data moves. The more people on the line wanting to talk, the larger the traffic jam and the longer it takes to clear, meaning even MORE dead time. This is what the party line effect IS, a slowdown of data throughput for everyone equally. This is further aggravated by the wireless access point itself, which has only one transmitter and can only talk to ONE user at a time. If there are 10 users, you get only 10% of the time with the access point to move your data. Wireless networks from your neighborhood count. They have transmitters just as you do and if the line is busy, you all have to wait for the line to clear, no matter WHO is using it, you or them. No one NEEDS to run on wireless unless it is physically impossible to rearrange things to use a wire. WANTS do not count. If you insist on using wireless, you only have yourself to blame for a network slowdown which means you grin and bear is. No whining, especially since it is your CHOICE, and you only have yourself to blame. Like I said: TOO BAD... Resetting your router or anything else you do will be fruitless. The best performance will be with a wired connection with a single computer running a single application. Anything more and you hurt your own throughput because of sharing the data pipe and increasing amounts of dead time... You DO realize that a PING is simply a measure of transit time for a packet of data to go out and back, yes? You have NO control over anything NOT in your house! Your ping is at the mercy of EVERY link and swerver between your computer and the target computer!

[Boss]

Unplug out your modem and router then plug back in then clean up your pc.