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Hi everyone, We are excited to roll out a major new firmware update for the Netduma R3, packed with significant improvements and optimisations we’ve been developing over the last year. This is a comprehensive release. You will experience a noticeably faster user interface, improved Wi-Fi auto-channel selection, new dedicated front panel LED controls, and key memory and security patches designed for long-term stability. Alongside these broader enhancements, we have completely overhauled two core systems: Device Manager & Classification Engine We have implemented a completely new Device Classification backend that allows classification and categorisation rules to be updated dynamically over the cloud. Just as our DPI system automatically updates to support new games, DumaOS can now recognize and categorize newly released smart devices as soon as they hit the market. To help make Device Manager as accurate as possible, users can now optionally report incorrect classifications directly to us. This reporting is purely opt-in, fully anonymised, and directly helps improve detection accuracy for all users. You will be asked if you want to participate the first time you make changes in Device Manager, and you can easily change your preference at any time from the Settings menu. Geo-Latency We have fine-tuned Geo-Latency to work more reliably with our currently supported titles, while expanding support to include more games, such as Battlefield 6. We have also reduced its footprint under the hood to improve overall system performance. Behind the scenes, we have been working hard on several exciting new DumaOS features that we are almost ready to share. Expect to hear more about those very soon. Thank you for your patience in waiting for this new firmware, and thank you for being a Netduma customer. DumaOS-R3-4.0.1510.sig Full Changelog:

It's been extremely stable for now. no crashes, UI is fast, and I'm a general household user/gamer, remote worker, and it's been solid for all of that. i'm not doing any fancy or unique really. on spectrum internet. not sure who "everyone" is because i'm sure not having issues. hopefully you get any help you need on your unit. the netduma team has been great in helping.

Need Help setup Netduma r3 for any game. I'm having issues with games like BF6 and Call Of Duty registering hit detection and want the truth on what is the recommended settings base on play testing and knowledge of packets and the internet. Also the recommended settings for my computer when it comes to DNS(Should it be default or uses other popular DNS?). I play On PC. See every body else play ok me it seems bullet damage is lower than most people. Watch all kinds of people on youtube play and seem ok or pro at the games and myself is ok but i know something is off in games i play with other people and seeing these problems like punishing the player for being Ok. Im pretty sure its the internet and maybe the router setup wrong. just running out of ideas and understanding because im not sure what to trust or believe.

Just updated. I really appreciate the hard work @Netduma Alex and the team put into this update, plus thanks to @Netduma Fraser for always being there whenever lag managed to reappear. After redialling in CC — BO7 + BF6 feels rather smooth 😇, yay!

Outstanding work as always team 😃👊

That would be really cool but it would involve a lot of work in an area we've not really touched before, perhaps once this big feature update is done we'll have more time to look into things like this

connection type: Asymmetric Fibre to the Premise 900/100. I’m a gamer my family are streaming mad. Usually 3-4 4k Netflix streams going on while I game For me personally the update is rather stable, more stable than the previous one The app hitches when grabbing server ping but I believe Fraser said they’re going to push an app update out, but I’ve been using my iPhone browser for router admin rather than app before issue was a thing. So not an issue for me.

In my region there‘s one physical fibre infrastructure provider - the ISPs use this to provide fibre to the premises to us. Sadly this fibre is asymmetric and uses PPPoE. Due to my asymmetric connection (900 down & 105 up) I seem more prone to bufferbloat. I can get A+ on waveform bufferbloat test, I still get lag in game. On max ping on download values, there’s a max of 280ms. So I started using LibreQoS Advanced Test. It feels like it’s stricter than waveform. It grades download, upload and bidirectional (when both are maxed out) it reported I had A+ on download and upload, but B grade on bidirectional (33-50ms added). When I got all down to A+ grade and 0ms added latency my connection was much better.

Hi everyone was wondering if anyone else is experiencing shooting first and dying first? I have att fiber 1000mbps internet plan and live in Los Angeles. I’m experiencing an issue where in most cases I know I should be winning gunfights where I’m shooting at someone and I immediately get deleted in less than a frame. I’m a very competitive player and always the aggressor but seems like I’m dying to casual players where I feel like the servers are favoring them if that makes sense. This also happens with rainbow six siege as well and I play on console and sometimes PC as well. If anyone else is experiencing major lag compensation and desync please help. I’m averaging at 3ms ping because I know live in Los Angeles and call of duty servers are located here if that makes sense so I guess being closer to a server handicaps you and favors ppl with bad connection? Please help

Hello, Netduma team! As a huge fan, user, and beta tester, I’d like to suggest a native Netduma Mesh system for your next hardware release. In fact, I recently had to disconnect my Netduma R3 because I have a 1 Gbps up/down connection, and hardware limitations prevented me from utilizing the full speed. On top of that, I live in a two-story apartment with heavy interference from neighboring Wi-Fi networks, and a single R3 just can't get the signal everywhere. A native Mesh system would completely solve these issues. It would allow users with high-speed connections to achieve full coverage across multiple floors and overcome intense interference—all while maintaining unique DumaOS features (like Geo-Filter and Congestion Control) across every node. It would combine your gaming software with the reliable coverage and performance that modern households urgently need!

As above we are working to fix that for the next version Just to make people/you aware that the lack of updates/communication is because we're working on big things yet to come and they will be worth the wait. It wasn't indicative of any sort of timeline or next update promise.

I believe that’s a known bug. At least the DNS one is. I believe the Netduma team working on it.

Hi Redflame 👋 thank you so much for your help and for your time !! I will try your recommandation and I’ll keep you in touch ! Same feeling I think the season 6 bring some problem with the game … Thank you again 🙏 ( sorry for my bad english I’m French )

Hi Jamie, Thank you for your advice. Will try this out Cheers Pete

Very disappointing firmware!!! No new features, same slow, old user interface. When in PPPoE some options don't work -Wan, advanced page not responding -geofiltering enabled/disabled button doesn't move

It's not publicly available yet. Can you provide a screenshot of what you're seeing exactly? Do you have it connected to a power extender or direct to an outlet? If an extender please try direct to an outlet. Otherwise do you have another power adapter you could try with? If you're asking because you do, what issue are you having? Otherwise, it's quite a stable update which is why we've made it public.

Salut ! Juste pour mon information personnelle, quel FAI/Pays te propose cette configuration ?

LibreQOS is definitely better than waveform. As waveform really is actually second best to use when using online public Speedtest services. Waveform if not trying to use libreQOS. You can try on waveform also to getting the ‘jitter’ down as much as possible preferably below 3ms for all three IDLE, download, and upload. But really say it’s better to use LibreQOS.

Yes you can use it - download it and upload it to the router manually instead We're aware of that saving issue, that will be fixed Great to hear and thanks for the kind words!

Yes my Nat Type is normally open. My public ip address is static. Yes I never had issue with PlayStation with getting my Nat type. It seems to be an Xbox only issue. I’ve tested it over several days now just to ensure it’s not rotating several server ID. Upon booting up my Xbox series X speaks to these two servers, they’re both in Brazil on map. 1O66GW1 1O66GW0

Thank you @Netduma Fraser 🙏

Just a heads up. The Mac Address Cloning area under Advanced WAN Details is constantly trying to load/buffer the address. This is on all Internet browsers and on the app. I am also unable to enter and save any DNS Override or MTU settings as pressing the save button doesn’t save your inputs. This is likely because the Mac Address Cloning area is still trying to load. This also happens on all browsers and the app too. Thanks.

I'm good thanks, how are you? Well it does add ping so if your ping is already very stable then you would be adding ping unnecessarily potentially making your connection worse but try with/without and see what works best for you

I'll respond in your topic

This is actually an intentional change. For most users, we thought that the hostname wouldn't be useful. For example the default hostname for a Windows PC is usually DESKTOP-XXXXXXX, where XXXXXXX is a random series of characters. In this scenario, the name "Microsoft Windows Computer" might be more useful. However I can see that for users who customise their hostnames, or for users with lots of the same type of device, this change is actually a step backwards. Perhaps we could add a toggle to display hostnames instead, or perhaps we could put the hostname in brackets after the assigned name? I'll discuss it with the frontend guys. Due to the Device Manager overhaul, some of the device/icon mappings were broken. If for example we update the name of a device type from the cloud, it might no longer link to the correct icon, which I think is what happened in this case. I will talk to the frontend team and make sure we get non-generic icons for everything.

Join my discord for more help https://discord.gg/zillagaming

@Netduma Alex With this update I've noticed that the router no longer recognizes the computers system name. For example my computer is named Jamie-PC and in device manager the router knew and automatically named me on the router as Jamie-PC. But now with this latest firmware it names everyone as Microsoft Windows Computer and I need to manually rename everyone myself. Additionally, there are less device manager icon options to select for each device on the network now. There is no longer a inique icon for Wi-Fi extenders like in the past. Not a major issue but strange to remove options that were available before.

Dang, people are either gatekeeping their settings or don’t know what they’re doing and are too scared to share. 🤦🏾‍♂️😂

WOOO!!! Lets gooooo

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What ping are you getting to the Texas servers then? Try different areas, don't just stick with the one area, experimentation is key

There is Internet Rules in Settings which for the moment is as much Parental Controls as we have/are working on

Still doesn’t work. I’ve set my geo location to Dallas Texas and feels the same. I’m dying way too fast and experiencing major lag compensation knowing I should be winning gunfights. tried with both capping speeds and also setting speeds to 1000mbps and setting congestion control to 70%. Just sucks that online games favor ppl with poor connection and penalizing ppl with great connection. Not sure why that’s a thing as most streamers and competitive players who do live in Los Angeles have fiber internet but somehow not experiencing the same problem? Sucks because I have fiber and thinking it’s that so I ended up getting spectrum to see if there’s a difference and it feels the same. I’ve got both my pc and ps5 optimized specifically for warzone gaming. I now currently have both att fiber 1000mbps internet speeds as well as spectrum 500mbps internet plan and neither fix this desync or lag compensation issue

@Netduma Fraser @Redflame Got it! I only had the Congestion Control off because my speeds were way low from what I’m paying for. So, after tech finished, I wanted to verify the speeds up to par.

Perfetto grazie Fraser

4.0.1442 - the latest is always pinned to the top of the Early Access subforum

someone helped me optimized my connection and it really helped bring down jitter during buffer bloat and anyone who needs help id recommend getting help from that user. really helped but still experiencing lag compensation. can you elaborate on how to do that last part of your message? i currently live in los Angeles which is i believe one of the major servers for games like call of duty which i play mostly. also just confirming my bufferbloat test works best when setting speeds to 60mbps for both download and upload even with my 1000mbps internet speeds. so when setting geofilter to a different location is it still ok to keep my speeds at 60mbps still?

You can do that in Settings > WAN > Advanced then enable DNS Override and you can enter it there

I am moving from my current ISP to a newer ISP. There may be a chance that my service could go live without the new router arriving yet therefore I may need to plug my R3 directly into ONT until I get new router for DMZ. I was told not so long back, that there was a disconnect bug with direct PPPoe.

Great to hear, thanks for the update! That's really personal preference, it depends how much you want it to be prioritized over other devices, 5 will give it top priority overall

Hey everyone, As we continue to work on improving our new DPI system, we're now looking to add as many of your favourite games/applications as possible. If you have a game you like to play or an application you use that's not classified in DumaOS' DPI system, please fill out the below form so we can get it supported for you. https://forms.gle/X4A9R4rikDMa3Wzq5 Thank you all for your help! Liam.

Can't believe it's been 11 years since I joined the forum , during that time I have had the R1 / R2 XR500 with R2 OS and now the R3. Today my R3 is plugged into my Asus RT-AX88U Pro , Just a little bit on the Asus : Rock solid piece of kit with great WIFI coverage and a good amount of gaming tweaks within the OS including various different types of QOS , on average we have around 22 wired and wireless devices connected to the Asus no issues ever . Only the Xbox is a wired connection to the R3 , I have flip flopped from both routers over the last few months and always go back to the R3 from a connection perspective it just feels much better , for me it is best in class it does what it is supposed to do from a gaming / connection perspective . HOWEVER - I had some time over the Xmas break off work and decided to plug the R3 directly into my ONT , so all devices connected to the R3 as it is designed to do , BTW just to say I think the OS on the R3 is excellent from a visual perspective and provides so much information and options to fine tune , much better than the Asus in my opinion , the following is what I experienced over a full week : Daily drops in WIFI or internet connection longest period of connection 1.5 days before I re boot WIFI would not reach as far as my Asus , ring door bell and Hive would not function correctly Family complaints Gaming was even better Where I am going with this ? Is this a hardware or software problem ? , I have tried to live solely on the Netduma router previously but it never delivers on a stable connection as my default network router when everything is connected to it . If it is hardware issue hen I for one would be willing to pay more to have an Asus type performance with the Netduma OS . I know we have had the Netgear experiment but not sure that is still an option mine died a long time ago . In closing I love the Netduma OS , it is back now plugged into my Asus and in my opinion gives me the best gaming connection on the market without doubt . It is just not capable of being a default network router managing all devices . You could I suppose without being dis respectful call it a one trick pony ..... but hey it's one hell of a trick . .

IM the high end PC guy. 240fps avg on a 240hz monitor. There's def loads of desync. Shit servers, man. Not much we can do on our end once you've achieved an A+ bufferbloat rating, the rest is really on them.

Hello, I set up the netduma r2 that arrived today and I have a question, dual vpn. Is there a way to make all traffic go through vpn and only be able to give some exception (wan) via rules similar to asus fusion vpn? @Netduma Fraser

That would be with QoS disabled most likely though you might be able to get that with QoS enabled

So, 900/600 arrives, but due to the QoS, I suppose it limits this speed, right?

In theory 950/950 but I'd expect something closer to 900/600 in reality

What is the maximum upload and download support supported?

Will xdefiant be added to dumaOS? It is a new game but with the current geo filter it does not respect the filtering and gives the peer to a player outside the chosen range