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Orbi / Raspberry Pi : Wild pings and drops
Since moving to the Orbi system, connectivity to my Raspberry Pi on 2.4GHz has been flaky. If I run a ping test to it, I get 1ms - 2ms - 800ms - Request dropped - 50ms - 1ms - 300ms - 5ms - 120 ms-...
You didn't say what version Pi you have and whether the WiFi is built-in. The small WiFi dongles typically sold for use with the RPi are junk. Get a better WiFi dongle with an external antenna or better yet, use wired Ethernet.
I have a PI running as a small NAS server. It has a cheap Edimax AC wifi dongle (no external antenna) and it works just fine with the orbi. I did a ping test on it after it was set up and got 100% over a long period (prob about 24h) with mainly normal looking response times. I have not tested again recently but it's been working faultlessly ever since.