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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.
The Pi is a Pi Zro Original. It's a timelapse camera and nowhere near Ethernet or I would have used that. The thing is that the Nano 2.4 adapter worked fine with the old Asus Wifi Router I used to use before the Orbi which makes me think that the wifi chipsets of the Nano 2.4 and the Orbi don't like each other.
The other thing is despite being much closer to an Orbi satellite than to the Orbi router, the Pi keeps connected to the Router at a much lower signal.
Maybe it's that, maybe the wifi handshake is fine but it's the distance that is causing the issue and I have to find a way to make it talk to the Orbi Satellite.
As a backup I do have a 5GHz only Nano adapter which may keep the Orbi radios happier that could use.