For reference I have the N66U and have the 374.43_32E4j9527 firmware installed. I'm asking specifically for wired connections, my aim is to have the lowest ping possible.
Are there any settings that has lowered your latency? Are there any processes that I should turn off that impact latency?
@Asad Ali Solved my problem! Thank you for all your help, you got me through these 21 hours of headache
So I factory reset my router and then tried to install the latest John's fork of Merlin, using the Asus firmware recovery tool. I also took a backup of the cfg and jffs, and used john's...
Yeah that's my router IP address, sorry should have mentioned it earlier. Connected a different ethernet cable to a different LAN port to my laptop and did the same thing, and still got the same results. Did it over WiFi again and still experience the ping spikes.
I'm going to factory reset...
I tried factory resetting and setting up fresh but still haven't found a solution. Thank you for all your help so far.
Here is my data from pinging my router. Every 3-4 pings, it spikes.
I used 3 different cables and used two computers over LAN and the problem is still there. I tried changing LAN ports on my router as well, but no change.
I came across this thread where Merlin says that the bug isn't present in my router (N66U) and only in the AC66U. Wonder what the problem is...
Hi there!
Like the title says, I have an N66U with 380.70 currently on it (latest supported version). Everything is working great (connectivity, range, customization is amazing) except for a ping/latency issue.
If I ping google from my PC connected to the router, every 5-10 seconds it spikes to...