Deco unstable or high ping

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Deco unstable or high ping
Deco unstable or high ping
2022-07-19 22:06:52 - last edited 2022-07-19 22:18:39
Model: Deco M5  
Hardware Version:
Firmware Version: 1.5.7 Build 20210819

Good day!

 

The setup i have:

Router

Switch

3x Deco M5

2x Deco M4

 

Decos work in access point mode.

 

4 Deco's (including Main) are connected to Switch via ethernet cables through separated ports. One deco is connected via wi-fi to Main Deco M5:

 

The problem:

Unstable ping when connected to "ethernet decos" via wi-fi.

 

Example of how it looks like when im pinging my local network:

 

 

Let alone spikes to 20-40's, which sometimes can be 100-200, the thing that troubles me the most is that the minimum "stable" ping is always between 2-8 count.

Even with cheapest router never in my life i saw local ping higher than 1. Sure, it may rise when there's a semi-heavy downloading going on, but that's not the case, this is a no activity ping or just browsing. Previously, before buying Decos, i had the same network setup with 4 different routers and local ping was stable 1.

 

It doesn't matter which model im connected to via wi-fi, M4 or M5, minimum always looks like this:

 

Why is it like this and is there anything can be done to change it?

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Re:Deco unstable or high ping
2022-07-19 23:27:30 - last edited 2022-07-19 23:29:47

  @pavel_105 

 

Hey

 

I have to be honest and say I think you are looking for a problem here that doesn't exist. 

 

If you are getting pings in the average of single digits, that is a superb result over WiFi and well within what would be expected.  It would be virtually impossible to get a 1ms ping over WiFi on any device, sadly if you say you have experienced this before over WiFi it's likely an error or false positive, I will try to explain.

 

WiFi is a shared medium, by that it is meant that only 1 device can connect / talk to the AP at any time.  Therefore when you send a PING over WiFi, the device has to negotiate with the AP to allocate it a time slot to send that data (the ping itself).   Should another device be using the airspace at that time, your ping will be delayed for a period of time (called a guard interval) to avoid a collision.   Should it have a collision (two devices sending at same time) its further delayed as this is retried and a guard is applied.    All this "negotiation" with the AP delays the actual ping being sent, usually by 2-8ms per ping, this will also be the same on the return.

 

Even in the vvv best of WiFi networks, 3-8ms for WiFi ping is an awesome result, and yes this will jump to 50, even 100 if there is others sending / collisions / retries etc happen. 

 

I have installed hundreds of WiFi networks and what you show as a ping result is perfect, even the vendor HP say anything under 20ms local for WiFi is great.

 

Honestly, dont think you have an issue here and its working as expected.

 

 

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