Ping Uberjump?

[oromis]

Okay, well then, so on and so forth, recently my ping decided to jump from a 40 average to a 700 average in TGF2, and COD is deciding to have a red bar when everyone else has 4 green. Facts:

•it happened out of nowhere, I don't remember downloading anything that could've done this

•Internet works fine, fast as anytime before

•all games tested on were on steam

•styrofoam has been in contact with my modem

•i took out a different modem WITH NO ETHERNET PLUGGED IN TO IT from my computer to fit a graphics card in. nothing happened until just recently, the modem was taken out months ago.

•my router is old, but again, i've had the same router for years



On speedtest:
12 mbps to 4 mbps
7 ping to 173 ping
2 upload to 1 upload

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[Big Brother]

Maybe your router has just had enough, but don't ask me :/

[Tokthree]

I'm pretty sure that all electrical objects with circuit boards and chips and stuff are vulnerable to static electricity, and foam has a lot of friction

[OneWithFire]

Yeah, but theres a plastic case for that same reason.

[Tokthree]

There's still cooling vents on most of them, what's to say the position wasn't right and the static arced through there?
 

[pingpeppy]

Naw I can't uberjump. I jump like a typical white boy. =(

[oromis]

bump, do you really think its the styrofoam? it was sitting on my modem mostly. is there a way to fix?

[Kerog]

I've had an issue similiar to this. I defragmented my computer and the internet latency went back to normal.

[oromis]

defrag did nothing, unless i have to restart for chances to take effect. modem seems to be working perfectly. router has blinking status and blinking wan

[Valen]

defrag did nothing, unless i have to restart for chances to take effect. modem seems to be working perfectly. router has blinking status and blinking wan

Idiot,  the first thing you do if there is any problems with your computer is to restart it...

[oromis]

you don't think i've tried restarting it? durp, i just didn't restart it since i've defragged.

[Kerog]

you don't think i've tried restarting it? durp, i just didn't restart it since i've defragged.

I should've mentioned: Do a disk clean-up before you defrag.

[oromis]

I did, I went through it all and afterwards i did a CCleaner to get rid of those temps and whatnot

[UnknownX]

Steam is probably checking for updates. It happened to me before, and my ping went from 1000 to 80 when I turned auto updates in the game preferences off.

[Parallel]

Too much research :P