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I’ve been obsessed, for the last 5-6 years, with trying to figure out why ANY FPS game I play, I am constantly desync’d and being silently extrapolated (meaning, I am not getting any network icons indicating an issue, nor am I skipping around anywhere). The second one causes the most insane reverse peekers disadvantage that breaks aim assist, hit detection, and makes every gun fight a 40/60 chance. Basically, enemies see me come around corners on their screen before I’ve even come around the corner on my screen and the server validates it. The millisecond I move my left stick, it’s game over. Why? We’ll get to that. (I don’t know why it double spaced this paragraph) During all this time I’ve built 3 PC’s, I’ve had 2 PS5s, an Xbox Series X, I’ve had fiber, cable, 3 5G services, Starlink, and my mobile hotspot and not ANY of them have ever made this issue go away permanently. I’ve probably got a dozen Activision accounts across all the platforms haha Now, interestingly, some of those ISP’s did improve the symptoms a little bit, mainly the mobile/satellite ones, and switching between any of them for the first time always resulted in 3-4 matches of flawless gameplay before the network conditions would start to degrade and the desync/silent extrapolation would return. When I tell you I’ve tried everything, I mean I’ve exhausted ChatGPT/Grok/Gemini to the point they’ve stopped giving me suggestions and tell me that I need to figure out how to cope with this or maybe stop playing these games. I just returned a 1400.00 UPS to Amazon yesterday in an attempt to claw myself out of a very deep rabbit hole. I’ve seriously tried it all. Funny enough, this isn’t the first time I’ve used Clumsy in an attempt to “fix” CoD. However, this was the first time I used it with a real understanding of what I needed and expected it to do… And it works. Not flawlessly, but it works. I live in a major US city, extremely close to two CoD servers that net me a 12-14ms ping with fiber depending on which server I connect to. My raw, very optimized fiber connection feels absolutely the worst of all the ISP’s I’ve played on from my home. That’s where Clumsy comes in. I set the parameters “outbound and UDP”, uncheck inbound, set the delay and watch the magic happen. Here’s what I think is happening: While all the testing that I can do shows a very stable latency, with less than 0.5ms of jitter up and down, I think there is actually some microjitter going on that eventually causes these games to buffer my connection. Combined with the lag compensation being afforded to a lot of other players except me, it leads to an experience that I think many of you are already aware of. What is clumsy doing? It’s adding a delay, albeit to every single packet of outbound information, to my Upload side and temporarily sweeping my microjitters or whatever under the rug. It’s not perfect, and I have to adjust the “delay” or lag as clumsy calls it, by anywhere from 15-40ms every single match. This artificially increases your latency, and by doing so, also can move you onto the right side of lag compensation. I can continuously adjust my “lag” based on the one enemy player I can’t kill until I find that sweet spot and then it’s advanced UAVs, and swarms from there on out. This sounds an awful lot like SteadyPing doesn’t it? Well it’s close-ish. AI summarized paragraph ahead: While both tools aim to counter aggressive lag compensation by artificially padding your latency, Clumsy is a basic, manual software clamp that blindly slaps a fixed, flat delay onto your outbound packets inside Windows, preserving (and often magnifying) your connection's natural micro-jitters while doubling processing overhead. In contrast, SteadyPing is an intelligent, hardware-level shock absorber running directly on the NetDuma R3 router that constantly tracks your server connection in real time; instead of a fixed delay, it dynamically expands or shrinks its buffer packet-by-packet to absorb your network's natural fluctuations, forcing your outbound data stream into a mathematically straight, perfectly jitter-free timeline. / End AI I’ve gone ahead and ordered an R3 as my XR1000 has run its course. For the issue that i believe I am having, I think SteadyPing is going to be a deliverance from the agony that I’ve been coping with for a very, very long time. I do not have any expectations that lag compensation will forever be on my side as that is just unavoidable. But I do expect that it will fix the very real desync symptoms that I personally experience.

Hi, I’m having an issue updating my Netgear XR1000. Current firmware: 1.0.0.78_1.0.65 I downloaded the latest official firmware (XR1000-V1.0.2.86_2.1.40.chk) from the Netgear website. Updating through the web interface always fails with a firmware update error. I also recovered the router successfully using nmrpflash, but after recovery it still boots into 1.0.0.78 instead of 1.0.2.86. The router works normally, but I cannot upgrade to any newer firmware. Has anyone experienced this issue before? Is there a required intermediate firmware version, or is this a known problem with the XR1000? Thank you.

So I did the factory reset and it went really well I thought I wasn't gonna be able to connect to the netduma but I was wrong I was able to connect to it right away and the problem has been fixed no more blocked server popping up and also ping assist is working really well

Hi, I play COD on PS5. I recently bought a Netduma R1 because I was experiencing severe desynchronization issues in FPS games on my 1Gbps fiber connection. The R1 is running the latest available firmware, and I’ve configured it correctly following the forum recommendations. Here’s the problem: When I connect the R1 to my ISP's router and then the PS5 to the Duma, I can launch the game but can never connect to a lobby—I get a "Host Unreachable" error. However, as soon as I connect the R1 to a 4G hotspot via Ethernet, I find lobbies almost immediately. Have you ever encountered this situation? Why doesn't it work when going through my ISP's router? I’ve tested both with and without placing the R1 in the DMZ on my ISP's router.

Okay so after i upgraded the router its still trying to connect to a blocked server and also I don't think ping assist is working properly I would factory reset at this point but if I factory reset I won't be able to get back into the dashboard because when trying to factory reset from a phone it seems to not want to display wifi

When I uploaded the file it started to upgrade it then told me that it didn't load the file correctly the router then rebooted and then came back on I checked the firmware version and it's the new firmware so idk exactly what happened but the netduma has internet connection and I can access the dashboard

I've given you access to the latest firmware to try to see if that helps https://forum.netduma.com/topic/60946-new-r3-firmware-dumaos-401147/ Did anything in regards to settings or setup wise change on that date? What is the model of the modem/router the R3 is connected to and how have you set that to ensure all traffic flows to the R3? E.g R3 in its DMZ, modem/bridge mode

Did you manage to upgrade successfully?

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Download the firmware on your phone, access the interface via your phone, go to Settings > Troubleshooting > Upload firmware > Select the downloaded firmware You don't need to remove the device from the Geo-Filter and you don't have to factory reset after the update.

Hello, Since july 9th I started to notice an issue with my Netduma R3, it's randomly disconnecting from internet. This is something that never happened to me before of that date ever. Because of the disconnections, I'm being kicked out in the middle of online games, zoom meetings, video streaming are being paused and so on. After a few seconds, the internet connection is back and the cycle repeats, which makes it very annoying. I had the latetst OS Duma version (v4.0.540) installed when this issue arose. I tried to downgrade to version 4.0.290 but the issue still occurred. I made a test by pinging www.google.com while tracking the internet connection. This is how it looks when the internet connection and the pings are working: However, when the R3 randomly loses the internet connection, this is how it looks (See the internet Status as Offline and the ping to google timing out): Right away after a few seconds, the internet connection gets restored again (The internet status is marked as green again and the pings to google are back): I took a look at the logs, however they aren't pretty much helpful since they're not recording the events of the disconnections: I made another test by connecting my devices directly to my ISP's router and I was able to keep the internet connection the whole time, without interruptions, so I'm discarding any issues with my ISP and its router since the issue is not being reproduced there. I'd really appreciate your help since before july everything was working fine and suddenly in july, this issue started to happen. I attach the logs in case you would like to go through it. Thank you. R3_2026-07-12T08_09_11.658Z_logs.txt

Thank u so much for helping me with this I truly appreciate it sorry if it was a stupid question I'm just new to the r3 router

@blue waterIt’s the same procedure, though it’s always recommended to do it over a wired connection. You just need to make sure you’re not uploading the wrong file, as that could potentially brick the router.

When I had my netduma r2 I could install the new firmware from the duma os app can u still upgrade beta firmware from the app it self or do u have to use the browser just curious cause I would think u can still upgrade firmware the same way on the r3 router

i heard theres a new firmware on netduma r3? currrently on 4.0.540

You can leave those at the defaults they're not going to have a significant impact really. Are you using the Geo-Filter to force the closest servers to you?

I don't have a pc can u walk me threw upgrading firmware on my phone and thank u so much fraser for the help I truly appreciate u and the other people that make these routers possible also I have another question do I need to remove my device from gio filter before upgrading to new firmware and do I have to factory reset after upgrade is complete

I've given you Early Access so you can upgrade to that version: https://forum.netduma.com/topic/60946-new-r3-firmware-dumaos-401147/ Then see if it works normally.

You don't need to be on that version, go to the latest public version and that will have the 3.3 beta as part of it, see if it works normally then

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hello all im looking to see if anyone has had issues with connecting to bo7 servers after going to XR500 software ending in RC10 . it worked past 3day then it defaulted back to factory firmware so i upgraded it again to RC10 version and now it gives me RELAY DISCONNECTED and ive changed DNS servers restarted modem /router and ps5 and still get same im bout to try factpry version to see if it works again but figured id ask here for advise . TIA

Also I'm not using the private beta so maybe if I flash the router with the private beta it could solve this issue I'm currently running the firmware version v.4.0.540

Hello I'm needing some help with my netduma r3 I accidentally turned gio fence on during a loading screen right before the match started in dbd and then I turned it off I accidentally turned it back on then off again I was trying to hit the back button I then left the game because I didn't want my connection to be messed up due to gio latency filter being turned on after that I then went to xbox dashboard and then i deleted the device from the gio filter then I did a resinq then added the device back and then rebooted the router just in case any problems that may have been caused due to gio latency being turned on and off rapidly after that I have noticed my ping assist is not working correctly and also I have noticed that the netduma keeps trying to connect to a blocked server and it won't stop