Over the past month or two, I’ve been having issues with intermittent latency spikes. They happen every other game or so. Here are two WinMTR runs I did:
Minimal problems:
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| My Network - 0 | 451 | 451 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 50-81-208-1.client.mchsi .com - 0 | 450 | 450 | 5 | 18 | 59 | 12 |
| 172.30.8.89 - 0 | 450 | 450 | 5 | 18 | 45 | 19 |
| 68-66-73-70.client.mchsi .com - 0 | 450 | 450 | 6 | 19 | 41 | 21 |
| po10.chgil001er1.mchsi .com - 0 | 450 | 450 | 7 | 20 | 48 | 20 |
| 137.221.66.164 - 1 | 443 | 441 | 7 | 24 | 103 | 27 |
| ae1-br02-eqch2.as57976 .net - 1 | 447 | 446 | 11 | 29 | 134 | 59 |
Lag:
| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| My Network - 0 | 535 | 535 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 50-81-208-1.client.mchsi .com - 0 | 534 | 534 | 4 | 21 | 489 | 23 |
| 172.30.8.89 - 1 | 531 | 530 | 7 | 22 | 692 | 13 |
| 68-66-73-70.client.mchsi .com - 0 | 534 | 534 | 7 | 22 | 356 | 14 |
| po10.chgil001er1.mchsi .com - 0 | 534 | 534 | 7 | 23 | 360 | 18 |
| 137.221.66.164 - 1 | 531 | 530 | 8 | 27 | 408 | 28 |
| ae1-br01-eqch2.as57976 .net - 0 | 531 | 531 | 11 | 62 | 3241 | 17 |
It seems the problem in the cases with significant lag is the first hop to my ISP; however, I’m unsure if there’s anything can be done to rectify the issue on my end. I’ve tried setting a DHCP reservation for my PC on my network to avoid IP conflicts with no changes. I’ve reset all the network settings on my PC and my router as well.
For what it’s worth, I will note that Overwatch is the only game with which I’ve been having issues. I’ve run the same test with other games, and the same things don’t occur. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.