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Hi Everyone, We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get a new update with new features and stability fixes out to you. Important Note: You may see "Critical Error: Failed to load minimum required components" after upgrade. Please ignore this message and refresh the page by pressing CTRL+F5. This will reload the page wihout cache. Changelog: Behavioural Identification is a new feature which identifies traffic based on the way it behaves. This allows us to categorise and prioritise traffic which hasn't yet been added to our DPI database, ensuring day one support for new games. It can also assume and categorise encrypted traffic based on the way that it behaves, which means that, for the first time ever, we can prioritise Gaming, Streaming and Video Calls even while you're using a VPN! New Themes have been added to DumaOS, you can now pick from Traditional Red, Gamer Green, Baby Blue or Cherry Pink WPS Support has been added. Press the WPS button on the back of your R3 to start pairing mode for 2 minutes. Translations have been added to the UI, you can now set your DumaOS to Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and German. If there are any incorrect translations, you can report them in the change language page. LAN Disconnections have been fixed, you shouldn’t be getting random drop-outs for wired devices anymore. Ping Optimiser has been overhauled and should be quicker and more stable than before. WiFi Auto Channel Selection has been improved, you'll get better speeds over WiFi. PPPoE VLAN compatibility has been fixed, you can now use both PPPoE login and VLAN tags at the same time and everything will work. Memory leaks have been fixed, your unit should no longer have to restart because of memory build up. LAN IPs were sometimes not being assigned before, this is fixed now. Many various frontend fixes. Various Stability and Security Fixes There are more new features coming this year that we've been working on as well. Keep your eyes peeled and we'll hopefully share them soon! You can install the firmware via Settings > Troubleshooting > Upload Firmware, and upload the file below: DumaOS-R3-4.0.540.sig We will be pushing this via the One Click Update over the next week or so.

For anyone anyone that wants good hitreg on BO6, this is my setup based on 1Gbps fibre Internet. 1. I've set congestion control to 50.5% for both up and down which gives me the best bufferbloat results. When tuning for Bufferbloat, pay attention to Jitter. Try and get it under 10ms. I managed to get mine under 3ms as I have very good Internet here in my country. 2. Set Congestion Control to Auto or Recommended. I keep mine on Always On unless I have big downloads. 3. I only prioritised Call of Duty (Series) for Apps and my PC for device. You don't need to prioritise Call Of Duty (Content) as @YT_LowPingKinghas mentioned in his videos Call of Duty (Series) covers Call of Duty (Content) as well. Focus on getting your Jitter as low as possible. I've noticed tremendous consistency and crispy hitregs just by doing this. I've uploaded a video of my gameplay and its been very consistent from game to game. Do give it a try and hope this helps. Nothing complicated to setup as the router does everything properly with 540 firmware but Geofilter is kinda broken now as it doesn't indicate which server on the map its connecting to anymore. I hope this can be fixed in the next update. And do factory reset your router after upgrading to 540 firmware. I got away without doing factory reset last few updates but 540 firmware wasn't having it. Had ping spikes and weird issues until I factory reset and it was GOLDEN.

It is already working, you can update

We *think* we know what the problem may be, we'll be pushing a cloud over the next few days that should hopefully resolve it.

Thanks for your patience, we've actually stopped using (deleted) the telemetry server so the toggle is essentially useless so you may as well leave it disabled. We'll be removing the option in an upcoming firmware.

BI and DPI have to be use together for everything to work as it should but it isn't perfect. There may be miscategorisations. Miscategorisations It's possible that there will be some miscategorisations when using BI. E.g if you are Gaming and Downloading through a VPN, it will struggle to prioritise the gaming as the behaviour is different to normal gaming traffic due to the download. An example of what to report as a miscategorisation is something like: VPN + Gaming (No other traffic on the PC) is coming up as Work From Home. Please if you find something like this, please grab Netduma a wireshark (if possible) capture whilst its happening, explain the miscategorisation and Netduma try to fix it. I know everyone may not be familiar with wireshark but it will help Netduma correct the miscategorisation asap.

A BETA a year and a half later? This version is prepared for the public and depends on NETGEAR making it public, QOS cannot fail even if it is BETA, it is a router that is said and promoted as the best QOS on the market, and we end up grateful for fixing it. ..

Disable Ping Assist, that will keep servers within your radius. Also enable strict mode and disable fast search for the same reason.

Just out of curiosity, is it Netgear giving out sloppy firmware for all the issues or a collaboration of both parties not coming to an agreement on how things are done? the firmware for this router seems horrendous. Duma os is very nice and polished in its ui and the duma os portions work rather well. But the actual functionality is a dumpster fire. If its the fw id like to know so i can crossflash to something else. The hardware seems more than adequate.

Took some doing to get the firmware to actually update but it finally did! I think the trick is to "Reboot" the router from the settings page, and then IMMEDIATELY after it's back online, upload the new firmware. I was hard rebooting, return to default settings, etc. but that was what finally worked. I have to say, I think I'm seeing quite a nice improvement. BF2042 hit registration seems a little more crispy and I'm seeing fewer "server issues" symbols pop up in game. So far that's the only game I've tried, but it does seem better overall.

6 day since last reboot 🎉 Good job guys! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a nice change of pace, thanks for the kind words and feedback! That has been requested so it's on the list, I've brought up trying to get some user requests in recently so hopefully we'll do that That's been mentioned before but can't be done with a toggle switch, it would require two versions of the same firmware so not sure about that Thanks for the suggestion, you can prioritize them really low with the advanced SmartBOOST and it should have a similar effect. Thank you very much!

The same as far as I am aware. Great to hear that! Unless they were doing work at 2am I highly doubt it haha. Exactly the same as far as I am aware so no need to update again. We're looking into PO currently. Right click the page, then go to Inspect (Element), on the window that appears click on the Network tab. Then click the checkbox to disable cache. Then click and hold the browser refresh button, and click Empty Cache and Hard Reload. Then see if it loads correctly please. Probably needed to change a few things but if you're happy on that version fair enough! As mentioned there it's primarily for SmartBOOST, not for the Geo-Filter, if it does work we will add it there. No you don't need to do anything, BI is enabled by default, it may not cover everything and I don't think we've looked into mobile much which is probably why

The update before, I had to downgrade, but this update (4.0.540) has improved my ping and my speeds, on call of duty I've been averaging 60 to 100 kills on multiplayer, it's hitting the mark and this is the best one so far after using it since it was released. Great job guys.

Reboot R3. Then upload new firmware. I have to do that with mine.

Forgot to list WPS Support in the changelog! Thanks for the reminder. Yes, WPS is supported in this version. Use the button on the back of the unit to go into pairing mode for 2 minutes.

We've made a change so resync again and hopefully it'll work now

Game servers don't respond to traditional pings so we try to be clever in order to get a successful ping but it doesn't always work. It will then try to fall back to the trace method which won't give you the correct ping in most cases but hopefully somewhere near it, however this can also fail. Then because it's unable to determine the true ping it can't know what value it needs to apply with Steady Ping. We're working on a new ping method that may help but I don't have an ETA for this.

You are probably reading this too late. For those that are reading this first - STOP - this beta version does NOT work. Fraser, you’ve wasted a lot of people’s time by STILL not giving people a precaution. If you have been unfortunate to install this beta version, go to Page 18/19 & read what I did/had to do. Short version is I reinstalled the old firmware & over a month later it’s been working flawlessly. Not had a single issue, QOS has been working perfectly fine too.

Gotcha thanks, are you using PPPoE or VLAN at all?

It'll be in the next cloud update that should have been pushed but not sure it has, I'm checking with the team

Thanks Fraser!

Game servers don't respond to traditional pings so we try to be clever in order to get a successful ping but it doesn't always work. It will then try to fall back to the trace method which won't give you the correct ping in most cases but hopefully somewhere near it, however this can also fail. Then because it's unable to determine the true ping it can't know what value it needs to apply with Steady Ping. We're working on a new ping method that may help but I don't have an ETA for this.

Hi guys, usually we use the forum only to expose problems but this time I wanted to congratulate you for the new firmware and the one you brought. 1-Behavioral identification, in my case, in Italy, I use many things that are only national and before were never detected by smartqos, now all those I use and have tested are classified and they are classified correctly, even many games (on PC especially) before were never detected now yes even if they are a generic "video games" or "streaming" it's fine because they are classified correctly and the qos makes sure they are prioritized. 2-the interface doesn't freeze anymore, but this also depends a bit on the various firmwares. 3-thanks for giving us the Italian language as well as other languages for other nations, every now and then I report something that can be improved but in any case 99% of things work fine. Something I would like to see in the future: 1-the ability to set a scheduled reboot of the device 2-to be able to turn off all the lights, they really make a lot of light especially if you have the router in the same room where you sleep. 3-an option in the Qos as a real bandwidth limiter for a single device, for example, I want my friend's cell phone to not be able to use more than 5mb of bandwidth. So Netduma team thanks for your product and support, I've been with you for 10 years now I think with the first netduma and taken all at the release, this new innovation that you have introduced is truly a functional thing especially for those activities that are not classified.

J'ai installé le routeur et il fonctionne bien, merci pour votre aide

Thank you so much man!

Haha no worries, mistakes happen, glad to hear you got it sorted and thanks for the update!

Yes I would suggest doing that

Yes that's correct, glad it's all working properly now, thanks for the update!

Yeah I didn't see that when I bought it.

Hi Fraser, thanks for the help, i managed to get open nat by adding those to the EE router and making a static ip by going into ipconfig and using my details.

No your gaming device connected directly to the EE router either via ethernet or WiFi

Where are you checking the NAT status exactly? If you disable the Geo-Filter then reboot your gaming device then check the NAT does it show open?

Please provide a screenshot of the Geo-Filter page showing what you see when this happens please.

Okay so i guess its just my browser, tried opening it in chrome, and it worked. I have to just clear edge's cache, and give it a go again. EDIT: Yup, it worked.

Ah - looking at the post you've linked to it looks like I'm on an old version, I'll sort that out and then post back in here to let you know how I get on. Thanks !

Good to hear, make sure you check the DMZ again, as you've reset it's likely the WAN IP has changed, that should help with the turning issue. That's super weird but makes sense why a lot of people have it, thanks for the update, I'll definitely keep it in mind!

grazie mille, molto gentili proverò in questi giorni e vi faccio sapere

@Mushiiipeas an update to the cloud was made in the last few days so that should be fixed now if you want to re-upgrade

I'm checking currently and will come back to you

That's correct Congestion Control will be disabled prior to SmartBOOST being disabled. Presumably they set it before disabling it but then it wouldn't take affect anyway.

I actually had the problem yesterday that I couldn't click "Continue". I use 2 browsers and if it didn't work on one, it always worked on the other, but yesterday it just didn't work on any of yours. This browser bug is so extremely annoying! The advice to try the app saved me!!!

Sorry havent noticed I was in the wrong forum

Okay use the DMZ function and try without Adblocker enabled

Thank you!

Oke i will do it in the weekend

That's good to hear, let us know how you get on, hopefully it won't happen again

Honestly the geo-filtering is your best tool for potentially getting better games. It naturally adds an extra layer against a bigger pool of sbmm. You can see the difference on where the matchmaking takes you vs it on and off. The steady ping feature at least in my findings, works great for hit detection, especially in servers you have the least amount of ping to.

Qos is really only good if your internet suffers from bad traffic example if you have loads of other devices using the internet at the same time Enabling Qos actually makes games worse .. Its been proven this .. What your are doing using qos is limiting your speeds you actally get to lower speeds you want full speeds while gaming ... The thing to keep in mind is QOS is of very limited value when you only control one end. So you can prioritize packets going outbound, but only as far as the next hop (ISP). Inbound not much you can do. Prioritizing within your LAN is feasible but I don't believe Asus QOS does anything with that, you'd need a switch with QOS features. QOS can do more harm than good too, all it is doing is putting pseudo limitations on the connection, making some devices think there is saturation and others think it is all good. This really only works for TCP traffic, UDP not so much. The QOS process also adds a bit of latency to process the packets. If the latency is beyond the router, QOS will do more harm than good (even if it isn't, that's usually the case, it is only needed if you are saturating the connection with other things, like running a large file upload while gaming. If the link is not saturated, QOS will only hurt, not help). It isn't like it is going to accelerate packets beyond the speed of light or anything. ...

I would like to request the ability to specify custom IPv6 DNS servers and possibly support DNSSEC/DNS over TLS.