Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

Recently I've been getting jitter in online games, where my ping will constantly change/range from 15-35ms, whereas my friend a few miles away on BT Infinitely is locked on 22ms constant.

I wanted to ask, does that extra little box/wire add anything to latency/jitter?

I mean the the one that is added just before the router and normally inserted into the white VM box inside the house?

A new install meant that the VM technician couldn't insert that little black & silver box into the white housing, so he added a cable version instead.

I'm pretty sure it won't really affect anything but just wanted to double check.

On a side note,

I have the SHUB3 - at first the WiFi was amazing on my iPhone 6S Plus, I was getting 180Mbps - but then recently, it's dropped off to 40 max. On the PC hard wired, I still get 209 Mbps though and I've tried a few devices, all 40-ish max?

Thanks 😊

Re: Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

The extra box is an isolator. It breaks the common DC earth connection between you and the street cab. It shouldn't affect your signal levels or latency.

Re: Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

Have you looked to see what other wifi channels are in use? This could be causing your problem.

Re: Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

Are you playing games via wifi or hardwired?

Re: Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

What do you mean?

It's on AutoChannel?

My phone at work pulls 100Mb no problem but at home has slowed down to 40 😩

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Games only ever hardwired.

Wi-Fi to my mobile and tablet only.

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So I would hope it wouldn't be adding jitter/latency to the connection then right? 🤔

Re: Can the little power surge protection box/wire add to latency/jitter?
 

Correct.