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Jdawg2467
Mar 04, 2025Tutor
Major Latency Spike Every Hour at the Same Exact Minute of Every Hour
Every hour my netgear orbi satelite gets a major lag spike of about 50-100ms at the same exact time consisting of 3 spikes and while gaming online these lags last for about 20-30 seconds of actual ti...
FURRYe38
Oct 09, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Just checking in on this. Any progress on this since you posted last and can you give some feedback?
Are you using IP Pass thru on the ISP gateway for the RBR?
What model Orbi system do you have?
Jdawg2467 wrote:Every hour my netgear orbi satelite gets a major lag spike of about 50-100ms at the same exact time consisting of 3 spikes and while gaming online these lags last for about 20-30 seconds of actual time in game. Is there any known solution or is netgear working on a solution or aware of a problem like this? It definitely has to be some setting or under the hood operations of the mesh system cause I just recently purchased this product and my old netgear orbi rbr50 did not do this with my same exact internet.
Jdawg2467 wrote:AT&T doesn't allow you to set their modem in bridge mode so you have to use pass-through and create a lease for the orbi router which I did. However, I never did any of that with my old netgear rbr50 mesh router and never had this problem with the same internet.