Periodically, I experience major speed drops in my WiFi home network. Sometimes I even lose the connection entirely. Videos on YouTube don't load normally and webpages don't load properly too. However, I never experience problems when I download something using, say, uTorrent.
I know this is not my ISP's problem because when I connect using Ethernet, the problem never occurs. I have also tried to analyze my wireless connection using the ping command on Windows and InSSIDer. This is what ping gives me when there is a speed drop:
C:\Users\username>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.3: Destination host unreachable.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss)
C:\Users\username>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss)
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 2ms
C:\Users\username>ping 192.168.1.1
Pinging 192.168.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 12ms
When I turn on "permanent" pinging:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
**Request timed out.**
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=64
**Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3271ms TTL=64**
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
And this is what InSSIDer shows me even when there is a connection problem:
Does it seem okay or am I wrong?
I would appreiciate any help with solving this issue, these connection troubles happen too often and this is getting annoying. I would be glad to know some tips on how can I analyze my connection in a more advanced way, too.
I am using an ASUS RT-12 router and Windows 7 Professional.