My Internet performance at home has had these occasional bizarre hiccups lately. In the above example, not a single packet in a string of 100 pings between me and the cable modem head end was lost, but just look at the latencies. There’s no physical-level problem with the data getting through, but the gateway’s holding on to packets for up to five seconds?! Good luck playing WoW under conditions like that…
Wow. I get hiccups, but that’s pretty severe… When did that start?
I’ve been seeing minor latency spikes for a couple of months now, but those were more on the order of a few hundred ms and didn’t have too much of an effect, just things like a brief pause every once in a while in EQ.
These spikes have been much worse and have only been in the last week or so. Usually problems like this clear themselves up, but I’m going to have to bitch at Shaw fairly soon at this rate. I haven’t done much online gaming lately so it hasn’t been a big priority, and regular web browsing is still fine, if a bit slower. But it destroys streaming video performance, too.