Some wires slow things down but no wireless connection does.
Some wires slow things down but no wireless connection does.
I've been fighting this for about a month, and nothing has fixed it. Every thirty seconds or so, my computer's internet gets stuck with big lags. When I run ping tests to Google, the response time jumps from 20 milliseconds all the way up to over a thousand milliseconds before going back to normal. This only happens when I use an ethernet cable. When I used just wifi on my laptop, there were no spikes. But once I plugged in the ethernet cord, those lags started happening too. I even tried different ports in my house and they all had the same problem. It's only with ethernet that it acts this way, which makes gaming and most other things pointless for me right now.
Try hitting your router's IP instead of Google. If a real network issue exists, you'll see similar trouble. The Wi-Fi path goes past the router, so this checks just the non-shared part. It's uncommon for problems like this to happen with an Ethernet cable alone. Usually, bad cables or ports cause speed loss rather than lag. If you don't get those same delays when testing on Google, figure out what is different about your Wi-Fi and Ethernet tests.
Checking ping to 8.8.8.8 sounds like hitting my local router, so maybe they have the exact same problem. I tried using different cables but nothing worked.
8.8.8.8 isn't your internet router. It's just a special Google service for fast data. Your actual router probably has an address like 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1.
Finding it might be hard. It's probably just some computer program on the PC. Waiting is because traffic waits in a holding line called a buffer. A wire cable only moves signals at one set speed, like light. That leaves the router and the PC. The router sounds risky since it would do the same thing over WiFi. So check your PC for anything that slows things down. Look out for programs that slow gaming or traffic. These are usually extra stuff bundled with motherboards or graphics cards. Maybe try turning on safe mode in your computer while using the network. That can stop bad programs from running. If you still feel slow then I'm not sure what to tell you further.
Do you have any network stuff on your computer? A lot of motherboards come with some extra programs called "optimizers." These are usually not good things and cause more problems than they help. Have you turned those off or removed them?