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Ping spikes and packet loss on WiFi
Hi, I’m having trouble with my orbi router with online gaming over WiFi. For the rest it works extremely well with high speed (400 down 40 up) and very low pings (10ms), all on WiFi. However with online gaming I got ping spikes and packet loss which makes it impossible to game online over WiFi. Over Ethernet it works great so it’s not my ISP that is the issue. How can I solve the spikes? There is not QoS option available in the routers interface. I have tried switching the satellite off but the problem remains. Hope somebody can help! Thanks Christiaan
NETGEAR Nighthawk X10 R9000 - Firmware Update to Enable Dual WAN Port Bonding - LAG / LACP
Since DOCSIS 3.1 has been released in many markets (Cox, Comcast etc) in the US giving us the consumer options to upgrade to speeds greater to or equal to that of 1Gbps I would like to request to see if it would be possible for Netgear to create a Firmware Update that would give us the ability to Bond two WAN ports with LAG / LACP on the R9000, using the available LAN1 and LAN2 ethernet ports designated for Static LAG or LACP-IEEE 803.3ad. There are now many consumer grade DOCSIS 3.1 Modems that support this due to the fact that speeds are now at or above 1Gbps. In order to bypass the 1Gbps physical port bottle neck, this makes perfect sense. Just for the sake of naming a few modems that have this capability, here I name a few: Motorola MB8600, Arris CM8200, Arris SB8200. I'm sure Netgear will also release DOCSIS 3.1 cable modems that have WAN port bonding simply due to the new speeds of internet available to us via this medium.Streaming/Browsing issue on C7000
Not sure what the issue here is. I have the 150MBps internet service from Comcast, and ethernet speed tests show I am getting it. What is bothering me, (and maybe its a Comcast issue) when my wife is doing a Facebook Live video for her work, using a cell phone or tablet connected to the 2.4GHz frequency. If I do something on my tablet or phone it will cause a disruption or weak signal to her stream. What bothers me about this, is I am connected to the 5GHz frequency. Could this potentially be a setting I screwed up in the modem? Or would this be on the Comcast Upload side? Thanks!
Jitter issues via Orbi vs direct to modem
I recently replaced my Arris SB6190 modem with a Netgear CM600 due to the well publicized issues with jitter/latency on Intel's Puma 6 chipset that the SB6190 uses. One of the tools used to help diagnose this issue is here: http://www.dslreports.com/tools/puma6 Its essentially pinging a server on the internet but instead of using ICMP its using TCP. This is because some internet routers/etc block ICMP, or lower the priority of ICMP in favor of TCP/UDP. So a TCP test is more accurate. Anyways, if I am cabled directly into my Netgear CM600 modem I experience almost no jitter. For example, everything is tightly clustered around 35ms in this test: Compare that to test when my mac mini is cabled into the Orbi: The response time distribution isn't so neatly packed around 35ms - many responses are 2x that! Things I have tried: I downgraded router & both satellites to V1.4.0.18 from V1.4.0.34 - didn't help I made the mac mini the only client on the Orbi. I did this by removing power from both satellites and disabling both the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz radios on the router in the Advanced Wireless settings. I also unplugged a switch with more wired devices from the router. At this point my mac mini was the ONLY client listed in Orbi's management inteface - didn't help jitter issues at all. Anyone else seeing jitter problems with the Orbi? This is bad for gaming, VOIP, etc. - any latency sensitive applications. I did find this other thread where somoene mentioned periodic latency issues on their Orbi: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-latency-peaks-every-10s/m-p/1200477C3000 ping issues
Recently, about every 20 minutes to an hour my ping will jump from around 30 to 600. If I restart the router/modem the ping will go back to normal, but not until then, so I know it is a problem with the C3000 and not something with my ISP. Also I get a large ping spike once around every 30 seconds where my ping will spike to 600 and then return again. I had this router/modem since May and it has just recently started doing this. Any idea for a solution?
