High Ping Spikes after the new update
I've started playing Valorant earlier this year and I didn't have any issues. I am playing on a laptop(windows 11) and I don't use wired connection.
This week I changed my router due to not being able to have stable internet if even only 2 devices were actively using it. (As example, my val ping would be huge if I played at the same time as my mom used Netflix). The router was also really old, however outside what I've mentioned I had no issues.
Yesterday I got internet again after a few days in which I've changed the router. I installed the new update and I saw that suddenly I kept getting the Network Issue and low FPS, despite not getting any of those before(maybe the FPS one sometimes but it never bothered me). It isn't a server issue since I have it set on optimal.
When I am about to join any time of game everything seems fine and those bars are green. Once I join the game, my ping is about 30-50 at most. When the rounds actually start and people come in my range of vision it shoots up to 500 and more. This didn't happen to me before.
Everything else works fine for me. I don't play any other multiplayer games but anything that needs Internet works fine otherwise. My friend advised me to do some of those speed tests and whatever and they all come out fine and according to him the game should, in theory, work. It doesn't.
I've tried many fixes I've seen on the internet and on YouTube involving editing in the control pannel and so on, yet nothing worked.
Is there anything I can do about this?
Is anyone else experiencing it?
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Last time I played was last weekend probably and it worked perfectly fine.
Also when it comes to wired connection such as lan cables, my laptop doesn't have a lan port.
I'm open to any solutions at this point though. Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this.
@ferretaleks tldr?
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"too long; didn't read"
can you shorten it
im asking for a summary, I don't need too much background info
After the new update I have high ping, I thought it was because of my new router but everything else works fine.
Are you with a new service provider?
What servers do you play on val?
Nope, same one. I have it set on optimal but Frankfurt is the best for me
Do you notice other people in your lobby
with high ping?
like all consistently high?
Nope, just me.
It might just be a server side error but usually other people experience that in the same lobby.
It's also high only as the round starts and during it. Before that it seems fine.
It could potentially be your new router. Are you connected via ethernet?
Nope. My laptop doesn't have a lan port so I don't really know what to do about it
Hmm, I would give it a few more days
maybe its just a server side issue due to the new update
If you still experience this after a few days, maybe swtich back to the old router and test?
That's fair, thanks a lot. C:
I can't switch to the old one because we basically exchanged it. I don't know if we can do it again