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High Latency with Orbi Router RBR50
I have an Orbi RBR50 and it's performance wildly varies, I normally get 130 down and 15 up, but my latency is always 100+ when I use the google speed test. In games though it's usually around 40-50 m...
How are you measuring latency, and are all the devices your testing latency on measuring the same destination? Its only a fair comparison if the test is the same on all devices, otherwise you could be comparing apples to oranges. And once the packets leave your gateway, the Orbi is going to have no influence on latency caused by upstream hops.
If you have a tool like 'mtr' (available via homebrew on Mac), it will help identify exactly which hop (or hops) is causing latency. If you don't have 'mtr', then basic 'traceroute' will help as well. If the latency is coming from within your home network, then something definitely isn't right, as I wouldn't expect latency there to be more than single-digit ms, internally. Latency from my laptop, to the Orbi seems to average around 5ms, for example.
I'm measuring latency through the google speedtest which is the first result in googling "speedtest", and how can I make sure I'm connected to the same router/satellite, because as far as I know I can't connect to the satellite on my own. Running some tests such as running a traceroute to google I get around 20 ms, and mtr shows no packet loss. Yet despite all that I consistently get huge spikes and latency. Not sure why I get such high latency when doing the normal speedtest on google.