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Orbi losing packets
Hello, I'm seeing packet losses with my Orbi. I have the RBK53 (RBK50, boxed with two remote Orbi devices). The Orbi is hardwired to my firewall. Also hardwired to my firewall is a Linux...
webminster wrote:
EDIT: A little more experimentation seems to be implicating the satellite as adding latency (at least) to the issue. Getting the laptop to connect to the router seems to decrease the latency variance and decreasing the lost packets.
Wireless add latency compared to wired. Pinging through the satellite uses two wireless hops, thus more latency than devices connected to the Orbi router. Packet loss over the WiFi would indicate RF interference and/or a marginal WiFi connection, either between your device and your AP or between the Orbi router and satellite, or both.
Aware that there'd be some extra (millisec or so) addition latency from the satellite to router. But it's not clear if interference is to blame for the packet loss or variance in RTTs. Maybe so, all I have is the "good" status on the 5G backhaul. I don't believe you have control of any backhaul parameters like channel, to test that out... wired backhaul isn't an option here.
webminster wrote:
Aware that there'd be some extra (millisec or so) addition latency from the satellite to router. But it's not clear if interference is to blame for the packet loss or variance in RTTs. Maybe so, all I have is the "good" status on the 5G backhaul. I don't believe you have control of any backhaul parameters like channel, to test that out... wired backhaul isn't an option here.
I believe RF interference can lead both to packet loss and to variable RTTs. This is because the WiFi radio will defer transmission when it senses a channel is busy.
You are right that you do not have control over backhaul parameters. The one parameter you do have control over is the physical position of the router and satellites. You can also potentially control the source of interference, if it's from a device you own.
You could move the router and satellite closer together temporarily and see if that impacts the loss and variability. Whatever issues you are experiencing might be on both the backhaul and the client channels, however.
If you haven't already, you should run a WiFi scanner to see what else is on the air.