[QUOTE="Stinger78"]Maybe your connection is getting affected by surrounding neighbors on the same ISP, and at a certain point, people will be getting home from work, and using more internet. At 10 or 11PM, people are probably going to bed. Is there also a chance your connection is open, with no password?JustPlainLucas
No, we use a password. We also monitor all devices connected to the router, and there are no unauthorized devices. Then it's probably your ISP. The issue you describe used to be common among cable providers before they all started upgrading their infrastructure. You can confirm that it's not your wireless by doing the following:
Open a command prompt window and type the following command:
tracert google.com
That will trace the hops back to google while pinging each one. If your wifi is the issue, you'll see high latency in the first hop which is likely your wireless router (probably an address like 192.168.0.1 or something). If the wifi is working, you'll see latency around 10ms or less depending on your reception. The next hops will depend on how your network/isp are configured, but basically this tool will keep pinging every hop so you can see where the slowdown occurs. Usually if the latency starts after the first or second hop, then it's not on your end.
You can post your results back into the thread if you feel comfortable doing that. Tracert output will not have your real external IP and the internal addresses will all be non-routable (like an apartment number, but without a street name or building number) and these are mostly the same addresses that everyone uses in their home so there's nothing sensitive there. The "real" IP addresses that will be in the results will be public routers for your ISP and these are shared by thousands, tens of thousands, etc.
-Byshop
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