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skerps
Aspirant
Feb 25, 2022

BR500: "CPU occupancy rate is high. Check the router."

I have had my BR500 for about a year and over the past 6 months the CPU utilization is anywhere from 60-80%. I have rebooted and made sure the firmware is on the latest version. (Firmware Version: V5...
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toya
Tutor
Aug 10, 2022

hi.

i have same issue. did you find any solution?

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    skerps
    Aspirant
    Aug 11, 2022

    Unfortunately no. I was forced to ditch the router and ended up making my own with pfsense. Netgear support wanted me to perform factory resets and do further testing but I could not afford the downtime. 

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