Windows 10: Machine freezes for a few seconds, spike in Network traffic

Hello,
My Dell 5675 w Ryzen 7 sometimes freezes for a few seconds.
Shortly before it resumes, the fan starts cranking up.
There are no events in the Event Viewer, when I open the Task Manager I see no spike in Memory or CPU activity, but in Ethernet activity.

Hope someone has a hint what to look for.

Thanks!

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Lag Spikes

I'm not sure if this goes into gaming or networking but since it seems more network related Ill post it here.

I have a Belkin usb wireless adapter I use with my gaming rig (see specs.) Lately when I am gaming online everything runs awesome. 60 or less ping no matter what. However about every few minutes I get a really bad lag spike. The game freezes completely for a second and as you well know a 5 second delay in a FPS firefight equals death. Its become quite annoying. Any suggestions other than running an ethernet cord across my house?

 

CPU spiking to 100% in windows 10

I am having a similar problem. Every 60 seconds the CPU usage spikes due to Windows Explorer. The system freezes for a few seconds and then continues. Sometimes windows close.

I have started in Safe Mode and also a Clean Boot but the problem persists. I tried the system maintenance, as suggested, with no luck. I'm not sure what else to try.

 

Lag spikes since upgrading to Windows 10

EDIT: Sorry for not mentioning earlier: I've tried reducing the roaming sensitivity to no avail. I also fiddled with my router settings, which rendered it unusable for a short time before I reset the defaults.

I've been getting nasty lag spikes ever since I upgraded from Win7 to Win10 about 2 weeks ago. They are most noticeable during multiplayer gaming (since everything sort of locks up or stutters), but I'm sure that it's happening all the time.

The spikes happen one or two minutes apart, and last for about 3 seconds each.

I've tried looking for a solution, but nobody seems to even know where the problem is coming from, so I installed MS Network Monitor and set up a constant ping to www.google.com to try and catch the culprit. These were my findings:

Pinging Google once every second, printing the timestamp of each ping. Here you'll notice a sudden spike in response time (from 65ms to 500+). After the spike, it settles back down to 65ms.





Monitoring network traffic. Using the timestamp data from the ping command, I was able to isolate the network activity that was occurring during the spike. You'll notice that most of the traffic during those 3 seconds is related to wifi probe responses and wifi beacons.



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I've done this test a few times, with no other network intensive programs running, and it's always this same group of network activities that happen during the lag spikes.

This didn't happen on Windows 7, so I think my router is not the problem. I have no idea what probes or beacons are. I see wifi hotspot names in the list, so I'm guessing that this is Windows trying to keep the list of hotspots up to date, but I don't understand why it has to lock up my connection when doing so.

If there is a way to delay this process, so that it doesn't happen every couple of minutes, that would be great. Ideally though, I'd like to fix it all together.