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I have a SonicWall router configured as follows:

P0 = Wired LAN (192.168.1.1)
P1 = Internet
P3 = Sonicpoint WAP  (192.168.5.1)
P3-A = Private Wireless LAN VLAN 1 (192.168.6.1)
P3-B = Public Wireless LAB VLAN 2 (192.168.7.1)

If a computer is on P3-A their IP address would be 192.168.6.2 and their gateway would be 192.168.5.1

If I ping any internet site (google.com) I get sub 30ms responses.

If I ping an address on P0 (192.168.1.4), the ping time varies wildly between 2ms and 2000ms - more so than not it's about ~800ms.

Any suggestions as to identify why I can ping the internet with a consistent response but can't ping the local 192.168.1.x subnet without?

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  • What happens when you try pinging locally with larger packets? Say a 1400byte ping rather than the default 64.
    – Ryan
    Jul 18, 2011 at 20:57
  • If a computer is on P3-A and has an IP of 192.168.6.2 with a DG of 192.168.5.1 then you probably have a misconfigured network.
    – Chris S
    Jul 18, 2011 at 20:58
  • I wager that P3 is misconfigured. What is the subnet mask on the interface?
    – tomjedrz
    Jul 19, 2011 at 7:20
  • 255.255.255.0 on all interfaces.
    – Earls
    Jul 21, 2011 at 15:14
  • Ok, I believe I have it fixed, but I'll hold off on the official answer for a few days to verify. Apparently if "Enable RF Monitoring" is enabled, you'll suffer "extreme latency and completely unreliable connections." Par for the course. It is now off - no dropped packets, almost constant 2ms pings, I'll follow up.
    – Earls
    Jul 22, 2011 at 15:56

2 Answers 2

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I had more problems even after disabling RF Monitoring, but upgrading the Sonicwall to SonicOS 5.8.0.3 (which also upgrades the Sonicpoints) seems to have alleviated the issue.

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Try disabling "Enable Aggregation" if you are using the 802.11n radio on the SonicPoint. That caused me lots of grief when iPads/iPhones were using the network. After unchecking the box, the effect was immediate.

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