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Orbi ping is awful
I have a new RBK853 system and my latency when pinging the router is just terrible. I see the same thing on multiple devices. 3-4ms pings with 80-120ms pings sprinkled in every couple seconds. I ...
machrider wrote:I have a new RBK853 system and my latency when pinging the router is just terrible. I see the same thing on multiple devices. 3-4ms pings with 80-120ms pings sprinkled in every couple seconds.
I just pinged my RBR50 (older, less powerful CPU) 500 times over WiFi using hrping (free). The results are
Fastest 1.294ms
Average 3.134ms
Slowest 9.483ms i.e. less than 1/100th of a second.
Supposing that there is 100ms latency from time-to-time. That is about 1/10th of a second. One would image that even veteran gamers would be tasked to respond (constantly) faster than 1/10th of a second. 3-4ms should be beyond anybody's capability.
WiFi is not nearly as efficient as ethernet. While I get a constant "under 1ms" response over ethernet, that never happens over WiFi. I suspect there is "something going on" in the RBK853 installation that is causing disruptions in WiFi performance.