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Orbi RBR50 Ping Spikes
Problem: Orbi satallite has random Ping spikes every few seconds going from 10ms ping to 600ms ping. This makes any online game unplayable. I have had the Orbi system about 8 months and only started having this issue about a month ago.
Current set up: Orbi main router (Orbi RBR 50) is in family room connected to ISP Router. Orbi Satilite router (RBS50) is 3 rooms over and 1 floor up from the main router. When doing syncing, the diagnostic lights show Blue indicating a solid connection so placement should be fine.
PC is connected to the Satilite router via ethernet cable and is suffering from the lag spikes. 2 different computers have been tried and both have the same ping issues.
Attempted Fix: Factory reset and updating ORBI routers firmware. Restarted ISP router.
Computers connected to ISP router do not have the ping issue.
Firmware Version: V2.7.2.104
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Thank you.
SkeletonTheif wrote:Problem: Orbi satallite has random Ping spikes every few seconds going from 10ms ping to 600ms ping. This makes any online game unplayable. I have had the Orbi system about 8 months and only started having this issue about a month ago.
It would be helpful to know if these ping spikes are internal to the Orbi system or are due to variabilities in the internet connection.
I use the "hrping" program (free at https://www.cfos.de/en/ping/ping.htm ) to measure response times across my Orbi network. (one RBR50 router and one RBS50 satellite with both ethernet and WiFi backhaul).
I collected the results of 5,000 ICMP packets (ping) between:
Two Windows PC's (HP) wired to the router.
A PC wired to the router and a Raspberry Pi wired to the satellite. etc.
The header shows the path from my HP trough cables, WiFi, a gigabit switch, etc. to the "other end".
In no case did I ever get a ping response larger than 219ms. The average ping was under 6ms for every test. If your system produces enormous ping times internally, that is indeed something to look into.
HP HP HP HP HP 500 byte Router Router Router Router HP Router packets HP HP WiFi Ether Switch HP Switch Router WiFi HP HP Router Router Satellite Satellite P-Line Router P-Line Switch Switch Router Router Ether WiFi Ether Ether Ether WiFi Ether Ether Ether WiFi HP Pi Pi Pi Pi Pi Lenovo Lenovo Lenovo Lenovo Pi Max 3.016 0.976 32.056 22.929 2.150 2.672 116.470 5.391 4.191 55.280 219.787 Min 0.243 0.290 1.516 1.256 0.278 0.357 1.366 0.617 0.384 1.810 1.644 Average 0.621 0.662 4.114 3.555 0.652 1.627 3.813 2.161 1.040 5.115 3.802 95% 1.074 0.817 7.384 5.741 0.826 2.039 6.707 2.463 1.372 12.073 6.773 5% 0.304 0.435 2.331 1.990 0.401 0.641 2.204 1.138 0.587 2.724 2.348
