Hi, i moved into a new house recently. I connect wirelessly to a router. When people are not around, my ping to Dota is decent. However, when I hear people walking around and talking in the house (i.e. they are not out), my ping to Dota crashes between 33->70->200->2000.

In the past I would attribute this being due to people using the internet at the same time as me coupled with the fact that i do not have a QoS router, which means that nomatter how good my bandwith is, i will still suffer from delayed traffic/high jitter/whatever.

however, i feel like this isn't the case in this house. i don't think they are really internet users, and it happens when i hear them walking around and talking, not necessarily when they are in their rooms internetting

this isn't the first time that i have suspected that 'people walking around outside my room' is the cause of my signal dying/packet loss. i will swear that it has happened to me in the past, in different apartments, and on different hardware

i have been told that 'people walking around' absolutely cannot affect wireless signals. the signals go through walls, why would they get damaged by peoples bodies? and why would it happen when the router is directly in X direction (i think this one is directly beneath my room), when people are around walking, perhaps, to the side of my room?

wiring into the router is not an option. replacing the wireless router with a QoS one is not an option (no money for starters and i don't know if it'd fix this issue)

i have a phone socket in my bedroom, but i have been told that i would need to plug a router into it before cabling it into my PC's internet socket. i have been told that i can't just stick an ethernet cable (with the right ends) from the open phone socket directly into my PC. i don't know if this is accurate

can anyone help or maybe just shed some assurance on what might be going on? where else could i post this question, if you can't help?

thank you