[Carth]

First post on here for a long time (welcome back Carth) hehe

Anyways, 20meg connection, small grey virgin (ambit? ) modem with similar issues as those above when playing online games:

* World of Tanks - had to give up as lag/jitter made it unplayable really

* DayZ - inconsistent would probably explain it. Ping starts fine at around 20 ish, then around 5 minutes later ranges around 80 to 150. Ping tests & tracerts to the server show no loss or high counts ( I believe one hop of 33ms was highest).
Last night was awful, I even experienced a massive Desync issue that none of the other players had.

I have no unnecessary programs running while playing.
Various speedtests show favourable results 16 - 20 meg). Had a look at modem config and all seems within the limits.

Here's the thing, I often play with a clan mate who lives 4 doors away and is also on 20 meg NTL - he gets a constant ping or 18 to 22 with little or no lag/jitter and both games play well for him.

Others on the server experience no issues either.

The only thing I can see that may cause a problem is high (90 to 98%) CPU useage - could all the above be caused by that ?