Network Adapter Upgrade! Help ASAP :)

Lod1996 · 8 Jun 2017 at 21:39

Hello dear community,
I have built my own gaming computer, my ISP is Virgin Media and I have the Vivid 200 Gamer. What so ever my Ping is incredibly awful whenever I play either Cs Go either League of Legends and few other games. In regards with the ISP, I believe that I have more than enough. I do not have a separate router and I do not want to spend on that as I truly believe is not worth it. People here do not necessarily need those for some gaming. Would you consider worth buying a network card adapter to improve my ping? Many thanks.

Ps this are the specs for the computer:

Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1
MY-229-KS
1
£41.66
£41.66

Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2
HD-102-KS
1
£39.99
£39.99

Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM001)
HD-335-SE
1
£46.66
£46.66

Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
CA-003-SF
1
£49.99
£49.99

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
CP-581-IN
1
£249.99
£249.99

Aerocool Aero 500 Midi-Tower Case - Black
CA-155-AE
1
£23.29
£23.29

Antec H600 Kuhler 120mm AIO Liquid Cooler
HS-013-AN
1
£33.29
£33.29

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080D5X-8G
GX-182-GI
1
£516.66
£516.66

Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
MB-541-GI
1
£79.99
£79.99

stulid · 8 Jun 2017 at 21:41

Network adaptor I doubt will help as your board has the latest speed LAN.

How are you connecting to your router/modem? what is the average ping?

Lod1996 · 8 Jun 2017 at 21:49

stulid said:
Network adaptor I doubt will help as your board has the latest speed LAN.

How are you connecting to your router/modem? what is the average ping?

So, first of all, I have that virgin media hub 3.0 and I am connected to it with Ethernet Cable. Average ping is from 70 to 150 or something similar to that in Cs Go and in League pretty much the same. I do have few other users connected at the same time to the wifi but that should make an important difference as I have the max speed for gaming from Virgin.

stulid · 8 Jun 2017 at 21:56

Have you tried disconnecting the other users and seeing if you ping gets better?

Lod1996 · 8 Jun 2017 at 22:04

stulid said:
Have you tried disconnecting the other users and seeing if you ping gets better?

Well that's the thing. Sometimes it doesn't matter if there are users connected it works PERFECTLY. Most of the time although it doesn't

stulid · 8 Jun 2017 at 22:30

It sounds like there might be some program on some PC eating the bandwidth and killing the ping.

Lod1996 · 8 Jun 2017 at 23:12

stulid said:
It sounds like there might be some program on some PC eating the bandwidth and killing the ping.

Is there a way for me to find what program that is? Because that ping is just driving me crazy.

bremen1874 · 8 Jun 2017 at 23:52

The Virgin SH3 is seriously broken.

Read the more recent pages on the Virgin thread for many tales of woe.

There's supposed to be a firmware update coming that'll fix the issues, but don't hold your breath.

hyperseven · 9 Jun 2017 at 00:07

Lod1996 said:
Is there a way for me to find what program that is? Because that ping is just driving me crazy.

you can see it in good old task manager and resource monitor in Windows.

or a third party app like GlassWire which has a really nice gui.

Steveocee · 9 Jun 2017 at 06:32

bremen1874 said:
The Virgin SH3 is seriously broken.

Read the more recent pages on the Virgin thread for many tales of woe.

There's supposed to be a firmware update coming that'll fix the issues, but don't hold your breath.

This is most likely the problem.

bledd · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:27

Do the following..

Click start, type

cmd
Press enter

This will open up a command prompt window
In this window, type

ping -t 8.8.8.8
Press enter

Look for
time=XXms , this is your ping to the Google servers. Go round the house turning on the other devices one by one until one of them makes those figures rise. Then investigate on that PC. Probably a torrent upload or something similar, could be a virus.

DIABLO · 9 Jun 2017 at 10:02

Lod1996 said:
Hello dear community,
I have built my own gaming computer, my ISP is Virgin Media and I have the Vivid 200 Gamer. What so ever my Ping is incredibly awful whenever I play either Cs Go either League of Legends and few other games. In regards with the ISP, I believe that I have more than enough. I do not have a separate router and I do not want to spend on that as I truly believe is not worth it. People here do not necessarily need those for some gaming. Would you consider worth buying a network card adapter to improve my ping? Many thanks.

Ps this are the specs for the computer:

Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1
MY-229-KS
1
£41.66
£41.66

Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2
HD-102-KS
1
£39.99
£39.99

Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM001)
HD-335-SE
1
£46.66
£46.66

Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black
CA-003-SF
1
£49.99
£49.99

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
CP-581-IN
1
£249.99
£249.99

Aerocool Aero 500 Midi-Tower Case - Black
CA-155-AE
1
£23.29
£23.29

Antec H600 Kuhler 120mm AIO Liquid Cooler
HS-013-AN
1
£33.29
£33.29

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 "Founders Edition" 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N1080D5X-8G
GX-182-GI
1
£516.66
£516.66

Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
MB-541-GI
1
£79.99
£79.99

As stated it's most likely the SH3, just check the Virgin thread.