Roughly a month ago my landlord changed his router and my local area reported having internet issues. I started having slight issues with my ping spiking occasionally. My landlord used to have a coax connection using an old router which, albeit not being the best, did the job just fine. Up untill then I used to run my Netgear R7000 Nighthawk in bridge configuration to his router upstairs in his apartment. A month ago, he changed his router to a Get Box II ("Get" is a Norwegian tech company iirc). I had to reconfigure my router to bridge up to his, although that wasn't the problem. My local neighbourhood had an internet blackout. We lost our internet connection for a couple of days (perhaps a week, tops). By the time the connection came back, my landlord had changed his router.
Here's the kicker. I have no clue what causes this. I've checked my settings, my config, both routers' configs. Found nothing unusual. Yet my ping spiked like shit. We phoned our ISP, who confirmed there was a problem. Since our neighbours also confessed to have issues with inconsistency, our ISP started to pay attention.
Then it became way worse. My connection started fucking up big time. Every few 20-30 seconds, my connection would dip out, disconnect, spike, in a way that would freeze up my game for like 1-10 seconds. This was very annoying, and it still is. I haven't played a scrim in 3 weeks. I haven't played TF2 in a normal manner since October.
TL;DR
I lose connection to a server every now and again, plus my ping spikes. I currently have no idea whether it's my landlords new main router that's causing it, or my ISP having some sort of malfunctioning cable or something.
Things I've tried:
[*] Port forwarding
[*] Resetting both routers, several times
[*] Calling ISP (duh)
plus a couple of other things I can't think of right now
Examples of what's what:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Gi1_qqfw8
My stuff:
•CPU: Intel i7 3770k@3.5ghz
•MOBO: MSI Z77-GD55, LGA1155 socket
•GPU: GTX 680 4gb WF3X OC
•PSU: Silver Power SP750, 750W
My landlord's router (main router)
https://www.get.no/hjem/nomu/get-box-ii
My personal router (connected to the main router in bridge mode, also connected to my computer)
http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/R7000.aspx
I'm getting desperate here, sorry for the long post.
- polar