Deco M5 - Packet Loss, Gaming Lag
I've been using the Deco M5 mesh network in router mode with 3 nodes since 2018, with very few issues. In the last few months though, I have gotten some staggering lag playing online games, to the point that I can't play multiplayer at all anymore.
My internet provider hasn't changed and speeds seem to be fine/normal. My latency and ping, in general, are quite good. I notice while playing games that my game freezes, ping goes negative and then spikes up like crazy before recovering to normal. Because my latency and speeds seem fine, I'm guessing this is related to packet loss? The PC I'm playing on is hardwired to one of the nodes, which is connected wirelessly to the main unit.
I have reset all my networking hardware etc several times, and I downgraded the firmware on my Deco units before installing the new firmware again when that didn't work. I have changed my DNS settings to the recommended Google ones.
Please let me know if you have any recommendations for what I can do to solve this, or if there are certain logs I can post that might help narrow down the problem?