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Orbi RBR20 Latency Spikes
Hello. I bought the Orbi RBR20 Mesh router a couple months ago. It was working perfectley fine with no latency spikes, especially in FPS games or games in general. But now I have latency spikes that ...
It would be helpful to know which Orbi unit the gaming device connects to. (router or satellite). If to a satellite, is it possible to temporarily relocate to the router? Is the device connected via ethernet cable or WiFi? (All of those WiFi parameters have nothing to do with an ethernet connection.) I would tend to think that beamforming and MU-MIMO would be better left on if the gaming device supports those standards.
It is important to determine if the problem is local to the Orbi network, or is in the Internet connection.
200 sounds like a "big number". From my perspective, 0.2 seconds seems "pretty fast in human terms." How is this ping being reported? (in the game software or through some other tool?)
It is connected to the router via WiFi. The spike is often 200 and above and happens instantly. It makes playing online games unplayable since lagging can kill your performance and the purpose in playing that game itself.
This is present in all online games. For example in Call of Duty, I get the error message "Connection Interuppted" and my character model teleports backwards from the last registered position. In another game, Valorant, I get "High Ping" and my character model lagging. Essentially I could be moving and suddenley I'm back from where I was a few seconds ago. For another player, I just stopped moving or moving aimlessley.