What is up with this internet speed spike?

Nattan

Lately my internet speed has been all over the place, I have done the online support and it didnt help. It worked fine when they "tested" it aka made me restart my modem.

and moments later at another nearby server.

I only have the one computer on and I am paying for 75Mb/s ( megabits). Then it spikes back to my normal speed.

During the time of the speed test, I was the only one online, the only other verizon service that was running was our TV.

Questions:

-What can I make verizon do to solve this issue?

Edit: these tests are on a wired connection.

And now its back to normal:

my biggest issue is it basically kicks me out of some games due to the spike.

walt178

It could have nothing to do with your connection. I've seen the same thing a few times. But when I picked a differnet speed test server the results were what I expect. The last time, with a server in my own state, I was getting results between 2Mbps and 20Mbps. With a server over a 1000 miles away, I consistently got 80+Mbps. That lasted for over 2 days before my defaut server returned to normal.

During that same period, the default server on the Verizon speed test timed out. But results were good when I picked a different server.

Presumably, this type of results is area dependent and will effect performance on some sites but not others.