Slow Connection / Frequent Lag Spikes at Night
Interwebs
Newbie

I have been having this problem for a while now. For some reason, everytime my area reaches somewhere between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM, i start having frequent lag spikes. Network activity becomes extremely sluggish, and I can't find a solution. I have restarted my router and nothing has worked.

I do note that I am an amateur at this stuff, so any help would be appreciated!

If it helps, I live in California in the city of Chino Hills.

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Re: Slow Connection / Frequent Lag Spikes at Night
spacedebris
Master - Level 2

Southern California had a similar problem back in early summer. Turned out to be a bad hop on the Verizon network. This may be a re-occurrence of that.

What you want to do is run some trace routes. Do this at least at two different times. Once when everything is working and once when you see the issue.

To do a trace route from a windows computer....

Press and hold the windows key on the keyboard (between CTRL and ALT) and hit the 'R' key. In the window that pops up enter CMD and click OK

This will open the command prompt (black window)

In the window type

tracert www.google.com

I use google as a test simply because it is a mainstay. You can use any web site you want, but google works well

Then post the results. This will tell us if the problem is on the local system (your equipment), on Verizon's network, or possibly beyond Verizon on the internet somewhere.

Re: Slow Connection / Frequent Lag Spikes at Night
tireyard1
Enthusiast - Level 1

this is not recognized as a internal or external command. no help.

Re: Slow Connection / Frequent Lag Spikes at Night
smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

It should work. Make sure you're entering in the command correctly! Here's an example trace from my PC:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.226.146]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.3.1
  2    39 ms    46 ms    69 ms  10.15.3.1
  3    91 ms    92 ms   103 ms  so-1-1-0-0.BUFF-CORE-RTR2.verizon-gni.net [130.81.13.77]
  4   107 ms   111 ms   138 ms  as4-0.NY5030-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net [130.81.20.106]
  5     *      106 ms   114 ms  0.xe-6-1-1.XT1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.57]
  6   103 ms   114 ms   114 ms  TenGigE0-4-2-0.GW8.NYC5.ALTER.NET [152.63.16.73]
  7   133 ms   104 ms   103 ms  google-gw.customer.alter.net [152.179.72.62]
  8     *       83 ms   126 ms  216.239.43.114
  9   115 ms    80 ms   103 ms  216.239.48.44
 10   105 ms   115 ms    80 ms  74.125.226.146

Trace complete.

C:\Users\>

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