Hub5 Wifi Latency

Got Gig1 which is great in my area, absolutely no problems with congestion. However, getting some weird latency problems on the wifi side (ethernet is fine, and weirdly so is my Windows PC on wifi is fine too). However, my macbook getting weird latency spikes. I thought it was just cos it was old, but my new M2 macbook air has the exact same problem.

Here's an example - this is to the router itself, so not the internet.

ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=4.920 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=14.177 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=57.072 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=6.293 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=4.150 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=4.489 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=6.185 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=11.800 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=3.900 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=3.826 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=17.780 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=61.438 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=133.286 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=151.116 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=3.338 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=6.719 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=3.086 ms

I'm going to try and change the channel number a bit, but is this a known problem at all? I'm pretty happy with the hub 5 as is really in terms of coverage and speeds, apart from this weird issue so I don't really want to buy a new router.

I would guess you have other people nearby using the same channel.

WiFi interference is a pain, and sometimes you need to split the 2.4 and 5 GHz channels to debug.

I've already have 2.4GHz disabled. Problem is on my Windows PC the ping on wifi is completely stable. It's only on (now 2) macs that there is an issue.

I've tried changing channels and no luck.

The fact it is mac only makes me think there is some other sort of issue here?

In reply to a post by mr_mojo:

The fact it is mac only makes me think there is some other sort of issue here?

Possible, Apple is known for being picky about WiFi. Ethernet would solve it, or you could get a third party access point and replace the WiFi.

So the actual issue was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowPC/comments/nreir1/mi...

Seems the airplay daemon is badly configured. Turning it off solves the problem after a minute or two - not instantly!

Now much much better and speeds way better. Pretty amazing such a bad issue is still present.

Nice find