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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...
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?
Here is a screen shot of my current ping times.
- Are you using QoS at all? Are ALL devices connected to the router? Also doing those kind of tests would be better on wired devices as wifi can be less reliable.
