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Weaver

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Slow WLAN pings
« on: November 01, 2021, 12:19:07 AM »

When I ping the IPv4 address of Janet’s iPhone from my iPad, both on the same WLAN, the ping times are mostly ~120 ms, occasionally 6 ms. Why so incredibly slow? Is it because my WAP is rubbish?

It’s an 11-year old ZyXEL business grade £300+ ZyXEL NWA 3560-N. I have three of them, two in use, one spare. Slow processor in it possibly, by today’s standards; iirc a MIPS 400MHz CPU. The web UI is noticeably sluggish at times anyway.
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2021, 01:39:32 AM »

Do they perhaps need a regular reboot to clean up the RAM?  Slow UI would certain suggest something is upsetting it.
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2021, 01:56:40 AM »

Memory leak ? Alloc heaven ?

I think the web UI is always slow 100% of the time, including straight after boot, iirc. I don’t recall sometimes thinking that it’s better.

Is it possible that the WAP can’t cope with the encryption/decryption well ? If with a weedy CPU. Has that ever been heard of?

I haven’t found a detailed spec that included a mention of the CPU, it’s just that 400 MHz MIPS64 rings a bell.
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2021, 01:57:52 AM »

Always slow I would expect for something like that, but "sluggish at times" is was made me wonder if something is pegging the CPU which would impact ping response too.
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2021, 07:42:42 AM »

Do they perhaps need a regular reboot to clean up the RAM?  Slow UI would certain suggest something is upsetting it.

256MB RAM, 32MB FLASH according to Wiki Devi: https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ZyXEL_NWA3560-N

Is one of the APs acting as the controller for both of the APs?
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2021, 10:04:10 AM »

If you Google 'iphone ping times' you'll find many reports, some old some new, of inconsistent times like you are seeing.
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Re: Slow WLAN pings
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2021, 10:08:50 PM »

No, I’ve set them up independently. With this model, if you set up one as a controller, as believe it won’t also work as an AP. I did have five APs and originally intended to dedicate one.
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