RTT and RTTd spikes that leads to WAN disconnect.

Started by sonic1812, April 06, 2026, 10:05:41 PM

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I am having an issue with my router that is causing spikes in RTT and RTTd. The issue is spontaneous as it will happen randomly.  Dpinger will show the RTT spike up to a high amount and that's usually when the internet will disconnect. What could the cause of this? I think it has something to do with my WAN interface settings, but I am not sure what else it could be. I have  used another router (OpenWRt) and didn't have this issue when I used it. Here is more information:
WAN Interface Settings:
1.    MTU= Blank
2.    Override MTU=Checked
3.   Block private Networks=Checked
4.   Block bogon networks=checked
5.   MSS=Blank
ISP INFO
Comcast EPON Fiber

Dpinger logs
2026-04-06T15:20:35-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: delay -> none RTT: 159.4 ms RTTd: 641.3 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T15:20:32-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: down -> delay RTT: 446.0 ms RTTd: 1384.5 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T15:19:40-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: none -> down RTT: 573.8 ms RTTd: 1665.2 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T14:45:52-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: delay -> none RTT: 151.7 ms RTTd: 583.3 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T14:45:49-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: down -> delay RTT: 429.6 ms RTTd: 1326.8 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T14:44:12-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: delay -> down RTT: 611.4 ms RTTd: 2048.2 ms Loss: 10.0 %)
2026-04-06T14:44:06-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: none -> delay RTT: 238.4 ms RTTd: 1106.6 ms Loss: 3.0 %)
2026-04-06T13:40:31-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: delay -> none RTT: 148.7 ms RTTd: 608.8 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T13:40:28-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: down -> delay RTT: 424.0 ms RTTd: 1326.9 ms Loss: 0.0 %)
2026-04-06T13:39:19-04:00NoticedpingerMONITOR: WAN_GW (Addr: 1.1.1.1 Alarm: delay -> down RTT: 515.1 ms RTTd: 887.9 ms Loss: 0.0 %)

Versions
OPNsense 26.1.5-amd64
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p9
OpenSSL 3.0.19
Processor N100
RAM 32 GB
Hard Drive: 512 SSD

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