Huge Lag Spikes Out of No Where?

Is it only games where you see this behavior? Is it only on that PC? You really need to determine if it's behavior isolated to that specific PC or if it's affecting your entire network. To examine that PC, you could setup a continuous ping by going to a command prompt and typing in something like:

ping www.google.com -t

Look for pings that take an unusual amount of time to return a response or packet loss. (You can stop the continuous ping with Ctrl-C.) Then check to see if there is any pattern to it or correlation with other things going on on your PC like an application taking a backup for offsite storage like Carbonite or something similar. Probably wouldn't hurt to run a virus scan too for malicious software.

However, if you're seeing spikes for all devices within your network look for other culprits like someone else within your household using a lot of bandwidth or an entirely different device. You could try temporarily changing your wifi password to ensure nothing else is on your network than what is plugged directly into it.

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You in wifi? If so, switch to wired.

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I feel like this should be obvious, but so many people really don’t think about it.

Tell your boyfriend to stop jerking it on chaturbate while you're trying to play.