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Hi all
First question here so please be gentle

I have 2 ESP-07 1 I have left with the default AI-Tinker FW on the other I have programmed with a transparent bridge project.

Now when I connect to the AI-tinker one I get consistent fast pings of <1ms from my PC. But when I connect to the one with the custom fw based on an SDK 1.1.1 I get slow inconsistent pings

Pinging 192.168.4.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=114ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=99ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.4.1: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=255

Does anybody have any ideas why that is? I know the AI-Tinker is running custom FW but I thought a ping would be a fast response.

Cheers

That is OK. If you are getting a ping at all you are OK.

The custom firmware must be keeping the CPU busy, causing a delay in the ping response. Since AT command firmware is just waiting for commands, it is doing less work and the CPU is available more quickly to respond to the ping.

No it probably means the "slow" reacting firmware probably has a higher level of energy saving. That's all. You can configure the ESP8266 to be working low energy or less low energy. Less low energy means quicker response.

That is OK. If you are getting a ping at all you are OK.