Ping times creeping upward
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ISP Radio (wireless service) –> pfsense (on board Intel 10/100)-->DLink TX538 10/100 NIC-->Gigabit switch.
I have a router in switch mode plugged into the gigabit switch acting as an access point (with multimedia priority turned off) upstairs.Without traffic shaping the PC upstairs can play WoW and run Youtube and latency is around 125ms (good for our provider) but downstairs my WoW latency skyrockets to 700+
I've been trying to traffic shape and the same thing happens but it just takes longer for the ping to creep up to that level.
Suggestions are greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Randy -
Just to be clear, is it the users on wired or wireless that are having the escalating ping time issue? Or, if they're both on wireless, is one set further away? (or at least more objects in the signal path, like walls.)
Does the issue go away (or change vastly) when you turn off packet shaping?
Just trying to isolate the problem.
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The PC upstairs is using a wireless connection going through the wireless AP. The AP is plugged into the switch. This is the PC that seems to enjoy reasonable ping times (WoW + youtube) while my PC which is connected directly to the switch and only running WoW suffers the escalating ping time.
With traffic shaping turned off my PC has slightly better ping times (~400-500 vs 700+) with the 'wireless' PC still enjoying good latency.
With traffic shaping off and the 'wireless' PC running WoW only (no youtube) then both machines enjoy reasonable ping times (~150).
Thank you for your time.
Randy
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I fired my ISP and turned off traffic shaping. With the new ISP all my issues seem to have disappeared.