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Punchtown91
Tutor
Jan 15, 2020

Nighthawk XR500 lag spikes

Hey Guys, I have the Nighthawk XR500 and lately I have been having very high lag spikes and the only thing that temporarily fixes the problem is by factory resetting the router. The problem it is t...
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Netduma_Alex
NetDuma Partner
Jan 16, 2020

Sorry to hear you're having these issues.

 

Next time a lag spike occurs, could you go to the System Information page and see if the CPU usage is high?

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Punchtown91
Tutor
Jan 17, 2020
So I am getting high pings again and the CPU usage is 40-50% with some periodic spikes. There are only 2 xbox's on the router currently for online gaming.