Orbi RBR50 Ping Spikes

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Feb 11, 2021

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

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