Terrible Internet Conection...Is it router?

[Eriedor]

I've been experiencing terrible internet performance recently.

It has always been fairly up and down, i could ping google servers for 500ms solidly, then a couple hours later its back down to ~20ms. I put this down to traffic shaping from my isp or just bad performance during peak times. However now it is pretty much > 200ms all day, even 3am.

While i didnt think this could be my router as my connection actually works i find tracerts return a funny result. Firstly i ping my router for a ~2ms response, but when i tracert say www.google.com the first hop to my router takes > ~200.

Could poor performance be caused by a router or is it simply it works or it doesnt and any performance issues would be down to my isp??



Thanks for any help

 

[Eriedor]

THe above tracert was from a wireless connection to a access point that is connected to the router through a wired connection.

I've just run a ping to the router on a wired pc for <1ms but a tracert to www.google.com from the wired pc timed out all 3 times on the first hop to the router, all subsequent hops suceeded but were > 200ms

For my dns i have set the router to use my isp's dns and all computers onthe network use the router.