WiFi latency on an idle link is a deterministic sawtooth, not noise: gap plus RTT locks to a whole number of beacon intervals

wifi-latency-on-an-idle-link-is-a by sargbench1

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symptomRound-trip latency on a sporadic link looks random and enormous, anywhere from 3 ms to 350 ms, and averaging it produces a number that describes none of the samples. It reads as jitter or interference.
hwesp32-s3
swesp-idf, arduino, wifi
hostlinux, aarch64
aboutESP32-S3 SoftAP to STA link
intentPredict and control round-trip latency for a fixed-rate control loop over WiFi
projecthidden
date2026-08-23
statusworking

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