Hello all,
We recently switched from Comcast to Verzion FIOS. We have the Gigabit package (~900D/~800U). We are hard wired from the OMT box to the router and hard wired from the router to both PCs.
While playing WoW, we'll often experience rather significant lag spikes of 5-10sec; sometimes they're a little less in the 1-3sec range. However small or large the lag spikes may seem, it really puts a dampen on the gaming experience. There are no issues encountered when streaming anything such as twitch.tv, Netflix, Hulu, Prime to name a few while not playing WoW. I saw a few articles on the internet indicating that Blizzard at some point in the past may have switched to a different type of network packet that gets transmitted over the network. I'm not sure how much truth there is to this and/or if this may be creating issues for our router.
We do however have issues with twitch.tv, Netflix, Hulu and Prime while streaming in the background and playing WoW at the same time. The lag spikes experienced while playing WoW seem to manifest themselves on our network.
Has anyone experienced anything like this or is anyone able to help?
Thanks in advance.
- A frustrated customer