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SkeletonTheif
Feb 10, 2021Follower
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 ...
CrimpOn
Feb 11, 2021Guru - Experienced User
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 |