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This was the problem I had encoutered not so long ago:

I have a peculiar problem with ping.

After a couple of minutes in game my ping goes berserk jumping from 30 to 170+ glitching and eventually causing me to lose connection with the server.Whenever I enter a server all seems fine; have good ping 20-30 on Sisu. Also, ran the diagnosis and have a constant 9+mbps on my wi-fi with TCP optimizer. I have scanned for viruses and other malware, and the scan returned as all clear.

This is not the problem of your router, wi-fi or hardware.

Solution:

From what I gathered this problem is rooted in the Microsoft WLAN auto-config services.
Solution to sudden jerky ping with a powerful connection:

Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services>WLAN AutoConfig>Disable.

Tried a game on a full American server and did not get lagged out for the whole game, even with a ping of over 130. All seems to be working fine for now, however this solution leaves me extremely vulnerable to server "hick-ups" and subsequent disconnects.

If anyone else is experiencing further issues, try resetting your hex values for your network throttling.

Start>regedit>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>Current Version>Multimedia>SystemProfile>

Then set your NettworkThrottlingIndex to be ffffffff. Remeber to tick the "hexadecimal" box. In the end your Data should read like "0xffffffff".

I hope this helps others as it helped me.

Were you actually connecting over Wifi or did this just happen to interfere when your used a cable?

Actually connected through the wi-fi. I have not tested this with cable.

Confirmed the functionality of this solution today again. PRTA server, without the solution ping stable at 60 but the game freezes and disconnects after 5-6mins. After applying the solution, ping stable at 30 and not even a single freeze.

However, you have to turn the AutoConfig function on again if you rebooting or switching your computer off. If you have it on off it will mess up your ability to connect to internet through wi-fi.

Confirming regedit fix solves ping spikes on wifi. Turning off WLAN Auto Config is no dice, since app that controls connection depends on it.

Turning AutoConfig works for only for me then, don't know about the others. =)

Thanks for posting your solution.
You could try to use "Task Scheduler" and have it execute a batch script to start/stop the service (windows - Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file? - Stack Overflow). Start after startup and stop when you successfully connected. This could ease up the whole thing of doing it manually all the time.