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James_Wheelz
Aspirant
Dec 20, 2019

Latency

My orbi setup has high latency making online gaming almost impossible. How do I lower latency? My computer shows my latency averaging 158ms.
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James_Wheelz
Aspirant
Dec 21, 2019
Fast roaming and Circle are off. Why would I turn off daisy chain since I have the router and 2 satellites? Also why would I disable Armor?
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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 21, 2019

Disabling some of these features is a troubleshooting step to see if anything changes for you. Armor and security features can slow down or cause latency. 

 

You may want to update FW to v2.5.1.8 aswell. 

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    James_Wheelz
    Aspirant
    Dec 21, 2019
    I keep checking for firmware updates and it says no updates available.
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    James_Wheelz
    Aspirant
    Dec 21, 2019
    Haven't tested my latency yet but I disabled armor and my download speeds were way faster. Why would Armor affect speeds that much? Before I was getting roughly 54 mbps download and now my speed is 232mbps download.
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    James_Wheelz
    Aspirant
    Dec 22, 2019
    Hey Furry could you explain your orbi setup to me I see you have RBK50 and XR450 (what is the XR450 never heard of it?) to a RBK852? How does that setup work and why so complex? Why did you choose that setup also?