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Horrible intermittent latency on the orbi router
Hello everyone,
I have had my orbi for a year now, and have loved every minute of it! Aside from a few intial issues with some of my smart home devices. I was able to iron those out, and I ha...
I just did 1,500 pings to 8.8.8.8 and every value was less than 35ms (yeah Spectrum!) So, there has to be something different between my Orbi and your Orbi. It is tempting to think there is some regular WiFi interference (microwave, phone, ???), but the latency is reported to occur even when two computers are attached to the Orbi router with ethernet cable. i.e. no internet, no WiFi. And, it doesn't matter which two computers.
I have a pretty plain network, about 25 WiFi devices and 5 ethernet devices. Actually, very little constant traffic.
One thing that used to drive us crazy at work was "ARP storms". We would mess up and create a "loop" where there was more than one network path to a device. An ARP request would go "round and round", gathering packets until it brought the whole network down. I guess what I'm looking for is some network pattern that would generate so many packets all at once that the Orbi would be overwhelmed and literally "pause". With this phenomenon happening as often as every 5 or 10 seconds, it might be useful to do a Wireshark capture of the LAN side and "see what's there". One way is to use the debug page to set up a debug capture of LAN/WAN traffic. Capture one or two minutes, and then look at it.
I thought it could be a DOS attack, Cam Table overflow, or perhaps arp poisoning, which prompted me to isolate the internal network. Already tried a Wireshark session. Nothing found except occasional packet-loss and dropped packets. Very very strange.
I have changed my modem from a static to dynamic configuration to no avail either.
Its the craziest thing, has anyone been able to force the Orbi to stop auto-updating? I would really like to see if the firmware update had any impact on my orbi specifically.
I had looked into thte debug page previously to see if perhaps the memory was being overused and nothing.
Looks like I spoke too soon. When I changed the modem config to dynamic from static, the latency when from completely horrendous to simply terrible. max spike from 3k+ to 1k so, thats something.,
NG no longer auto updates Orbi since v32/v44. The orbi does check to see if there is an available update and notifies the user. It's up to the user to update the system or not.
Arkkady wrote:I thought it could be a DOS attack, Cam Table overflow, or perhaps arp poisoning, which prompted me to isolate the internal network. Already tried a Wireshark session. Nothing found except occasional packet-loss and dropped packets. Very very strange.
I have changed my modem from a static to dynamic configuration to no avail either.
Its the craziest thing, has anyone been able to force the Orbi to stop auto-updating? I would really like to see if the firmware update had any impact on my orbi specifically.
I had looked into thte debug page previously to see if perhaps the memory was being overused and nothing.
So a manual install of the older firmware should allow it to remain on that build?
Thats great news, I could have sworn I tried that already, and it autoupdated. But I will try again.
it depends on which older version you use. Use a version thats too old an it will auto update. :smileyfrustrated:
