Hey guys! First post

Basically when I'm playing WoW I normally get a 200ms-ish ping. Then once in a while for this short period I'll get 2000-5000ms pings which seem to be resolved by opening up my router page and disconnecting and reconnecting the DHCP lease. For the life of me I can't recall right now WHETHER its all occurring at the same time of day though.

Anybody know how I could find out what's the cause of it? And possibly put in corrective/preventive actions?

Thanks a bunch

Alex First..

Welcome to the forum

One thing you can try is set your computer to use a static IP, instead of a leased IP through DHCP; or, you could continue using DHCP but set a "RESERVATION" (goes by a couple names depending on router... my D-link calls it a "reserved" address. Basically, what HAPPENS for me is the local IP address 192.168.101 can only be used by my desktop, 192.168.102 can only be used by my laptop, and the other PCs in the house CONNECT to anything else. I did this for the express purpose of applying varying port-forwarding rules to both. Only other option aside from those would be to get a completely new router entirely; and this is also all assuming that the PC itself isn't causing it, which might be a little more difficult to determine. This is the only game this occurs with?Actually, it's affecting all the computers in the house when it happens. PLACING reservations for all the coms now, will see how it goes.

Thanks for the help