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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!

Your very welcome and thank u and the rest of the dev team for all the hard work y'all put into making the netduma routers possible

This has been requested before and its on the to do list for the team, they will make changes as soon as they're able

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.

Outstanding work as always team 😃👊

WOW what an AI response. Also, why is this urgent?

merci 🙏🏼 la mise à jour à apporter les corrections qui faisaient défaut. J’ai testé tous les paramètres du menu et tout fonctionne correctement. j’avais des problèmes sur l’optimisation du ping même ça cela fonctionne parfaitement. Enfin merci à la team.🥂

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!

This is my personal view but I don’t think they branched out, still using cache on the web browser, it’s really old tech. The Internet has moved on and so is networking And that’s why companies like UniFi who are not that old, 2005 if mem serves me well but look how they have grown. I can see company house reports because in the UK companies have to publicly show reports. They could’ve easily produce a gaming router, normal routers and grown and developed into more hardware and different market segments. My personal point of view and the again is my personal point of view the hardware is lacking and it’s outdated software. If I look in the Philippines the majority game on mobile phones. The majority use a generic router. A Niche market is risky, I just wish they had branched out more in the early days. and here’s the thing you can walk into an airport go onto the public Wi-Fi and make perfectly stable video calls, and that’s with thousands of people using that network. networking has moved on a great deal, I just wish they had moved on with it. I believe they could’ve had a decent company covering different aspects of networking. That’s my personal point of you and it would’ve been great to see a British company competing against other companies. I’m still in the U.K. at the moment, flipping between countries and I talk to better half with no latency issues and she sat in a very basic provincial house using a generic router. It’s not even set up in a good place it’s in the corner of the house and next to it is the solar system which I put in.

My internal transfer speed between nodes hits between 800 and 850 Mbps, even through the concrete slab; it’s more than enough for my 1 Gbps fiber connection and works perfectly for gaming. I use Wi-Fi SweetSpots and the Deco app to monitor it, and honestly, the dedicated wireless backhaul handles the environment fantastically. You’re absolutely right that MLO and Wi-Fi 7 are still in their infancy for mainstream IoT devices, but since my main gaming rig and phone support them, they do the job where it matters most. I know it’s unlikely Netduma will venture into multi-node hardware, but hey, the suggestion box is there for a reason! Thanks for the chat and the feedback!

Si ton sol est sur une dalle béton, tu peux faire un parquet en bois par exemple et faire filer les câbles entre les supports du parquet au sol, tu fais une petite saigné dans les murs pour installer les prises RJ45. Hihi, y a un peu de travaux mais c'est jouable !

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Thank you for my english 🙏 I’m good too 😎 I will try your advice about the steady ping ! My ping is normally 9ms ( the servers of Miami ) . I play on PC . You’re right about the lag compensation ! This thing is horrible and the SBMM too . If it was an SBMM about your level it will be ok but this thing doesn’t take ping into account at least not exactly … Have a great day Redflame 😎✌️

Thank you so much for replying! I completely understand that developing it from scratch involves a massive amount of back-end work, especially since DumaOS has traditionally been focused on single gaming routers. It's great to hear that it's at least a cool concept on your radar! I'll be looking forward to that big feature update you guys are working on right now. Hopefully, once the dust settles, a native mesh system can be explored down the road. Keep up the awesome work with the updates!

Disregard my last post, i wired my connection and installed from downloading the file.

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.

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Can I get added also please

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 )

Yes I understand, I've asked the team to test the game and make changes where necessary

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.

Turning off Ping Assist and Geo-Latency fixed my issue. Thanks man.

Good to hear you got it sorted - we will need to update the app to account for the new update, we're working on it

It will accept it but you will need the DNS from them also. I can't say for certain if it will work, I haven't seen anyone mention setting their static IP in WAN Settings before and I don't have the capability to test it and I don't know when the last time it may have been tested specifically was.

Dans le principe c'est possible, mais pour tempérer... vous avez confirmation de Fraser ! 😉

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

You don't need the static IP in WAN Settings, you'll just receive the IP from the provider so it'll work just fine!

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

It sounds more like a Netduma R3 configuration issue than a problem with your Virgin Media connection, especially since the router itself gets 470–500 Mbps. I’d check QoS/Congestion Control, bandwidth limits, and any traffic prioritisation settings you changed for Black Ops 7. Try returning those settings to default and run another speed test. If the speed returns, you can adjust the gaming settings gradually without limiting the whole connection.

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.

If there aren't any servers there then yeah not much that can be done, you should be able to force central servers but playing ranked the search is already restricted by the rank so it will take longer to find games. Less people available the longer it'll take unfortunately.