TF2 Starts Lagging at Around 4pm - Ping is fine?

[Freeze]

So recently TF2 has started to lag at around 4pm (and almost all day on weekends sometimes).
I think it's because lot's of people are suddenly using the internet at around those times, but my ping seems fine (around 30 - 80) so I don't really know if it's an internet issue on my end or what.
Does anyone know of any fixes for stuff like this or is there nothing I can do (except change internet provider which I can't do for reasons I can't be bothered to explain :c).
I would have posted this in the megatop- oh wait I've already asked the question before and it got drowned out.

Anyway thanks in advance if you try and help and yeah.

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[PowerDag]

high traffic, as you have already said. your computer may be overheating, too, idk, or you have a program/virus that runs every day at 4 pm

[Freeze]

high traffic, as you have already said. your computer may be overheating, too, idk, or you have a program/virus that runs every day at 4 pm

i did a full scale virus scan yesterday so that wont be it :o
and it's not overheating i dont think, it was fine today till 4pm, and i know that because i was off school ill, but on other days when i get home from school it's lag

[PowerDag]

high traffic, then. might have someone mooching off your bandwidth.

also client-sided ping isn't affected by traffic, that's server-side ping

[Freeze]

high traffic, then. might have someone mooching off your bandwidth.

but it's an unlimited bandwidth plan :c
is there any way to help overcome the high traffic?

[PowerDag]

play low-traffic servers, all i can say

[Freeze]

play low-traffic servers, all i can say

how do i know which is which? :(

[PowerDag]

how do i know which is which? :(

study the servers each hour and choose the ones with the lowest average ping/playercount

[Freeze]

study the servers each hour and choose the ones with the lowest average ping/playercount

but i just said that even when my ping is fine i lag

[Soukuw]

Virus scan or something like that.

Edit: For clarification I'm not telling you to do a virus scan (Though you should) I'm telling you it's could be a scheduled scan.

[Zuero]

Virus scan or something like that.

i did a full scale virus scan yesterday so that wont be it :o

[Freeze]

what zuero said ^^

[Zuero]

what zuero said ^^

:D

[Soukuw]

Virus scan or something like that.

Edit: For clarification I'm not telling you to do a virus scan (Though you should) I'm telling you it's could be a scheduled scan.

Edited my post before I saw you guys posted.

[PowerDag]

he said you may have an automatic scan every day at 4pm