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Is intermittent high ping an issue in my Macbook or my router?

Every 20-30 minutes, my internet seems to be unresponsive for about 10 seconds. I can easily see this if I'm running the ping command while it happens:

pinging to 8.8.8.8, showing a good ping, followed by a sudden raise in ping time, then returning to the good ping

Now, I have two routers on my network, both broadcasting the same network (with a different SSID).

I have this problem since a few months.

My /etc/hosts file only contains a few 127.0.0.1 mywebsite.dev entries.

So, is this an issue that must be resolved on my Macbook Air 2014 or on the router?