Weird latency issue

Stevewarren

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Ok as the title suggest I've come upon a weird latency issue.
Ok so I was playing Warzone on my PC and I noticed my ping was not the best so I alt tabbed out while in game and did a mybroadband speed test and the latency seemed fine and here's the weird part as soon as I went back into the game my ping was 10-20 ms better but it only lasted like 3 minutes.

So I alt tabbed out again and did a speed test and voila once again it was 10-20 ms better again.

So yeah I can improve it everytime by doing a speed test mid game. What could be causing the latency to improve for 3-5 minutes after doing a speed test?

I connect using a Huawei b315 router to MTN also I'm wired to the router not using WiFi.
 
Using LTE is a fun experience of having completely random latency at any moment.

I usually find the more traffic is going through the link, the worse the latency is.
 
Even stranger is that I don't even have to run the speed test I just have to open or refresh the mybroadband speed test page to get this 10-15 ms improvement in latency.
 
Router was hacked and starts crypto mining when traffic is low. Stops when you run or browse speedtest to hide itself.

Sorry just my imagination running wild :p it is a huawei after all.

Probably some prioritization going on with ISP.
 
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