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Orbi RBR750 WLAN Latency!
Interesting thing going on here. I've been a orbi fan for a while now and for the most part have not had an issues. That is until I recently "Upgraded" to the RBR 750 WiFi 6 dealeo. Right off the bat...
Have you ever tested it with the Orbi connected directly to the modem and the orbi in router mode?
Its tough to say its the orbi when its running in ap mode as it doesn't do any inspection/monitoring/etc as its leaving that to pfsense box.
Plus between the modem and the router you have the pfsense box and a managed switch. both of which do packet/data management.
I have tested it just connected to the modem with zero difference. It's not the sg500 or the pfsense box either. Every other lan device gets less than a quarter ms back to the pfsense box. I would also like to add that any latency the cisco switch adds is almost undetectable in a normal home environment, and even in a heavy use production environment. It's no 3850, but it's still a well respected 10g medium size switch. To add about the orbi doing anything besides layer 2 maybe 3 in AP mode, you're right it really doesn't and shouldn't in AP mode, which is why i'm amazed that it has any latency to begin with. It does have a little bit of its own over head though. It still periodically phones home, checks for updates, and all the other magic that keeps the wifi radios going. So not too sure on this one