Compared two capture files, different timestamps
Hello everyone,
I will start with the problem:
My main PC is connected to my home network via a wireless adapter. Every 6 minutes, there is a ping / lag spike for roughly 10 seconds, consisting in two "humps". This impacts online games, mainly, and it has been an infuriating problem for a few months already.
I have tested on another PC and the problem doesn't manifest there. Then, I started closing active applications and shutting down services until I ended up with pretty much nothing else than the Operating System. Sometimes the problem goes away and I say "Ahh, it must be application A", but then, after a restart, if I close the application A, the problem persists, then I repeat the steps above and end up with application B being the culprit, which then turns out it's not, because the issue rears its ugly head again.
So I installed Multiping to monitor and obtain timestamps, then Wireshark to filter packets according to those timestamps.
Now, I ended up with two exported captures, which are 168 and 158 packets long, respectively.
...And this is where I am a bit stuck. I am not a networking expert by any means, but I have checked those capture files and compared them, and to my knowledge there is nothing that stands out.
Therefore, I am stuck. Maybe someone with more knowledge could take a look? I would very much appreciate the insight. As I said, the captures are not very long and they seem rather straightforward to me.
Thank you for your replies!