Sounds like it is your ISP's issue. You're pinging 192.168.100.1, so you must be using a cable modem, right? Have you logged into it with a browser to see what your power level and SNR for your up and downstream is when your latency spikes?
Yes I have a cable modem. SNR is Signal to Noise Ratio correct? With a normal, low latency, my SNR is 34-35 dB and power level is -9 dBmV. When latency went up in game, I refreshed the modem page and the numbers remained the same during latency spike. Since my router and modem did not spike up with latency, does that mean they are both working properly?
I did 2 tracert to yahoo.com just now. The first one is with my computer directly to the modem. The second one is my computer through the router. Does something look wrong ? The latency is higher on the router then the modem...
And here is another tracert to yahoo.com with the router showing everything fine again....
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Users\Anthony>tracert yahoo.com
Tracing route to yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dlinkrouter [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 8 ms 25 ms 9 ms gateway-g1-050-lbhblocal1.lbh.ptd.net [204.186.1
8.150]
4 20 ms 22 ms 40 ms gateway2-t4-3-abn22blo2.abn.ptd.net [207.44.126.
1]
5 18 ms 19 ms 19 ms gateway2-t4-3-abn22blo2.abn.ptd.net [207.44.126.
1]
6 21 ms 22 ms 22 ms exchange-cust1.dc2.equinix.net [206.126.236.16]
7 35 ms 23 ms 38 ms ae-6.pat1.che.yahoo.com [216.115.96.81]
8 44 ms 42 ms 51 ms ae-5.pat2.bfz.yahoo.com [216.115.96.67]
9 35 ms 34 ms 47 ms ge-1-0-0.pat2.bfz.yahoo.com [216.115.97.207]
10 38 ms 58 ms 35 ms xe-10-0-0.clr1-a-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.232.1
03]
11 32 ms 33 ms 35 ms et-17-1.fab8-1-gdc.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.128.51]
12 42 ms 33 ms 36 ms po-16.bas1-7-prd.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.130.1]
13 * 43 ms 101 ms ir2.fp.vip.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.183.24]
Trace complete.
C:\Users\Anthony>
I'm getting so frustrated....Is it the router? I thought for sure it was the ISP.....I'm getting mixed results. The router shows yahoo.com ping up at 800ms while the modem showed much lower, but then the modem showed google.com at 100ms on modem while only 20ms on router in another test. Can't decide if its the ISP doing it, the modem? The router? Ugh!......