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Wi-Fi ping spikes every 10 seconds.
Ping jumps from around 5 ms to 100 ms every 10 seconds. The issue is reproducible only when connected via Wi-Fi. When connected to the router with an Ethernet cable, the problem does not occur. R...
Router: NETGEAR RS300
* Mode: Access Point mode
* Gateway/router upstream: UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
* ISP: Telia Sweden
* Firmware: 1.0.6.16
* Device used for ping: MacBook Pro M3 Max
* Ping test: ping google.com
* Test location: sitting approximately 30 cm from the RS300
* IPv6: Enabled
* DNS: Cloudflare DoH
all CAT6A - but it should not be a reason since there is no issue via cable to router
I heard it might be WIFI QoS that by some reason still enabled even in AP mode but it's still strange that it makes such a huge spikes
What happens if you ping the routers IP address from your Mac?
If your pinging thru the RS then thru the ISP Gateway, you could see odd spikes.
What happens if you ping directly at the gateway with your WiFi device with RS turned OFF?
And you do have the gateways WiFi disabled as well?
What channels are you using on the RS router? Try 1 and 40 or 11 and 48.
How is AP mode configured on the RS router? Dynamic or Static?
it does not allow this
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
but if I ping gateway - the issue present
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If I ping from Gateway console(no wifi in this loop) - no described issue
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This gateway doesn't have wifi functions
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I use 36 for 5 and 53 for 6, but I already tried, it does not affect this issue
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Dynamic or Static? - what do you mean ? (it says AP mode, nothing more, but I didn't set any static routes/ip's etc)
You should be able to ping from something connected behind the RS in AP mode to the gateways IP address, i.e. 192.168.1.1 or what ever the gateway is using for it's LAN IP address.
There are two configuration modes for AP Mode, Dynamic and Static:
got it, it's dynamic then
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ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: No route to host
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
this is what I get when I ping AP(RS300) from my mac connected to it via WI-FI
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and this is when I ping Gateway (mac > rs300 via wifi > gateway)
ping 192.168.10.1
PING 192.168.10.1 (192.168.10.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=6.116 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=5.108 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=4.545 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=5.192 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=14.621 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=56.633 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=6.151 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=5.201 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=4.649 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=4.923 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=8.380 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=5.381 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=8.592 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=4.373 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=5.006 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=4.834 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=28.047 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=77.481 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=8.999 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=4.436 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=5.481 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=5.254 ms