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To be honest, the NetDuma community isn’t really a typical customer base. We’re more like passionate enthusiasts with a mild addiction. We complain, we debate, we push for more… and yet we’re still here. That says something. We appreciate that updates for the R3 are in progress, and it’s good to hear they’re substantial. But there’s another thought that many people here share — some openly, others quietly refreshing the forum every day. We’re not just waiting for firmware. We’re waiting for the next level of hardware. If a more powerful next-gen router — call it an R4 or whatever it ends up being — were announced tomorrow, I genuinely believe a huge portion of this community would upgrade instantly. Not because of marketing pressure. Not because we’re being manipulated. But because we believe in the idea behind NetDuma, and we want to see it running on hardware that truly matches its ambition. Sometimes the frustration you see here isn’t negativity — it’s anticipation. People don’t get loud about products they don’t care about. The reason discussions get heated is because expectations are high. Give us DumaOS running on seriously powerful hardware, with proper headroom for the future, and that wouldn’t just be another release. It would be a statement. We’re not angry customers. We’re impatient supporters. And that’s a good problem to have.

i got it working not sure what i did but it works now

It took a lot of time and effort to finally achieve this result. Trying things out, shifting the mesh system, and adjusting the netduma. I'm very happy with the result.

Hi all! App version 1.3.26 is now available on the App Store & Play Store for iOS and Android. Not many changes since 1.3.20, but here they are: Fixed iOS 26 can't interact with views Fixed Ping Heatmap doesn't display servers with longitude of 0 Updated to use new Netduma Logo The biggest issue was an incompatibility with iOS 26, which was causing a lot of issues. This release should resolve those issues.

I appreciate the info and it helped a lot! Happy to be part of the Duma gang again.

Si purtroppo se connesso all ont devo per forza usare il pppoe capisco grazie mille

No it's not necessary for you

I'm thinking about that. I hadn't too much problems with v4.0.258, really. I only use that for Warzone.

Good to hear! If you download the last DumaOS 3 update, then just upgrade to it from the interface. Hard to say, I don't think 4 on the R2 is too unstable really. Whatever works best for you!

ok I will move the geo filter around this week and report back this weekend

Your ping sounds fine and it's unlikely you're experiencing any congestion so I think forcing some different servers might give you a better experience

To force servers you need to do the following: It's essential the Geo-Filter is enabled before the game client (e.g. Steam etc) if on PC or platform (e.g. Xbox, PlayStation) or the game have been launched. If you change Geo-Filter settings when you're on the game then you will need to restart the game for those changes to take effect, otherwise it will use the previous Geo-Filter settings and appear not to be working. For settings ensure Ping Assist and Geo-Latency are disabled in the Geo-Filter menu that can be found by clicking ⋮ in the top right hand corner of the page and go to Settings. Strict Mode should also be enabled, it is enabled by default so if you haven't disabled it you can ignore it. If you have disabled it or want to check it can be found in the same Settings menu as above or in Settings > Troubleshooting > Advanced > Developer Options depending on your firmware version. Fast Search should also be disabled which it is by default so can be ignored if you haven't changed it, otherwise this can be found in the same place.

No one usually posts a bad gameplay video to YT!

They change servers every so often so what you experienced can happen, we then whitelist and it'll happen again at a future date, always a bit of cat and mouse really! Though you have prompted an idea that might help with this so I've relayed that to the team. You'll only see servers in a few different circumstances, with some games such as CoD you may see all servers, apart from those within your radius when you first launch the game. Then when you search you may see servers outside your radius being blocked. Then when you're in the game you should only see the game server you're playing on and potentially the auth server.

Hi @Netduma Fraser, this is great news, since I will be moving from a very poor FTTC network to a 5G one, I'm very happy to know it. If you need a tester user, I can share and test the firmware if it is released in beta. In the form where you report your line, I had put my FTTC, but for a while longer I will have both, both FTTC and 5G, so if you need a tester when you release the beta firmware, I'm happy to provide feedback.

This is essentially what we're working on currently, one of the big features we've referred to - ACC (Adaptive Congestion Control), there is some very limited information about it here: https://netduma.com/blog/how-to-fix-bufferbloat

We've been hearing about this for half a year, it's like waiting for Santa Claus on his reindeer who won't show up. Or is just prolonging time to the next release of new router to be honest 😂

Problem solved. It turned out to be my controller disconnecting from the console. That was causing the PSN and Call of Duty logouts. This was not related to the NetDuma R3 in any way. Thanks for the assistance — case can be closed.

You can't setup to apply different locations/radius sizes etc for different games, this was something we were considering/looking into the feasibility of adding, it may come in the future.

Yes you will, we've spent a lot of time and resources on these new features so yes they will be coming

Buongiorno, volevo delle informazioni precise riguardo il settaggio del qos, cercando su internet ho visto che è consigliato per le ftth stare tra l 80% e il 90% e non necessariamente stare in bufferbloat a+ questo perché se per raggiungere a+ dovessimo scendere sotto la soglia del 80% in giochi come warzone verrebbe aggiunto un jitter artificiale, che ne compromettere la fluidita e l hit reg del gioco. È reale tutto ciò sapete dirmi qualcosa di concreto

I'm not sure where you've got that information but: We don't have any specific recommendations based on connection type We don't suggest to stay within a certain percentage range Are you referring to lag compensation - the theory that if your connection is too good that the game essentially makes your connection worse/helps worse connection players have a fairer experience? The first two are not correct, there are no one size fits all settings, every connection is different so its best to experiment to find what works best for you. As for lag compensation, I don't know how much I believe the aspect where they make your connection worse but I'm sure they do have measures in place so that people with worse connections can have a better experience than they would otherwise have.

Hi, Normally on a City Fibre connection you would need the username and password plus the VLANID. (At least that’s been the case on the last three City Fibre connections I’ve had.) VLANID could be 911. Your ISP should be able to give you the details for all of the above credentials. As @Krush shows above, if you’re already in the main Duma OS console. Then go to Settings > WAN, then select PPPoE, then pop in your details. *The VLANID is under the advance section of the WAN settings (on some firmware). Please note, it may take a few minutes for the City Fibre connection to establish once you fill in the details and save. You may need to reboot the router if you see no connection after say 10 minutes. Hope that helps.

PPPoE from my internet service?

If it's working without the Geo-Filter enabled then it'll 100% be those servers that need to be added, they can appear and disappear very quickly. Either way the team will investigate and resolve it via a cloud update as soon as they can.

Yes that's normal

No, we keep the current game and last game on there so when 7 came out we would have removed MW3. The servers are essentially all the same anyway.

You can keep it enabled that's fine

Ill try it out

Hi! I've been working hard lately to get my Netduma, including Deco's Wi-Fi mesh, working. I've searched extensively for the correct settings and have found them. I'd like to share them with you. Here are both my Wi-Fi and wired results. First my WIFI results My wired results

got ya thanks.

There will be a blocked server when that happens, just zoom out on the map, run the test and you should see the server get blocked. Add it to the allow list and give us the ID and we can whitelist it. There may be a few servers responsible

Vous bloquez le serveur d’accès situé en Irlande ! Sans ce serveur d’authentification , vous ne pouvez pas accéder au jeux ! C’est un comportement normal lié au geofiltre.

Can you try the following please: Toggle "Reduce Transparency": Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and check "Reduce Transparency". If it is ON, turn it OFF, as this feature has been known to cause UI glitches and crashes with the new "Liquid Glass" design in iOS 26. If it's OFF, leave it OFF and ignore the rest, as that wont be the issue. Then launch the app, and see if that works, please.

Okay, so for you, "problem" rhymes with "breakdowns" in the IT world, which you clearly don't know much about, especially here, since it's supposed to be a gaming router, so latency and other factors should be optimized as much as possible. Well, in these logs, that's not the case. The router, especially the processor, is working unnecessarily and haphazardly, which affects the stability of the system and therefore the router... Basically, just because your car starts and runs doesn't mean it doesn't have a problem... But since it's you, I can understand.

@18RayFYour case is uncommon but not unheard of. What stands out is that you're using DHCP, which typically operates with an MTU of 1500. However, your ISP is clearly providing an MTU of 1492, commonly seen with PPPoE, and when the MTU exceeds the limit set by the router, fragmentation occurs, which can lead to issues like the one you experienced. In other cases, this might manifest more noticeably, such as through packet loss. It is not an issue on the router side as the router uses the most common configuration. @KinGzzyMost of what you said isn’t even an issue; the time going backwards is literally just the DPI reading the packets, and as you are using the AI, which you are, it doesn’t tell you the most obvious thing, which is that IPv6 is disabled.

No, you can't do anything; you have to wait for him to pass the information on to a Firmware (Embedded) Developer.

Hi According to the logs, your router is suffering from major software instability. 1. IPv6 configuration problem (odhcp6c) 2. Script and TLS errors (cli.lua) 3. Time instability (Time went backwards) 4. Very frequent DHCP renewal (udhcpc: lease obtained, lease time 600) 5. Memory cleanup (drop_caches) USER root cmd echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 6. Processor instability (Time went backwards) 7. The conflict with "DPI" (Deep Packet Inspection) In your logs, I also see: user.info dpiclass-daemon: Daemon shutdown user.warn overwatch: Changing category of appid=161... to VPN Your router is suffering from major software instability. This isn't just a minor connection error; it's the DumaOS system crashing because it's trying to handle too many things at once.

Disabling DHCP prevents the router from dynamically providing IPs to devices - you should only ever disable DHCP if you have given devices static/reserved IPs either on the router or the device itself. It is likely that when the DHCP lease tried to renew that is when the issue became known. You do not need to disable DHCP for any performance gains.

thank you for the help!

The longer the cable the more subject to interference it is but it's usually fine up to ~100 meters. However with such a long cable it is much harder to determine if there are any kinks or internal breaks for example

Ok grazie per le tempestive risposte. Buona serata

BO7 uses under 500kB/sec down and under 200kB/sec upload (5Mbps/1.6Mbps) on minimal texture streaming settings. Probably double once you bump the texture streaming up. There is a spike however at the beginning of each match as you load in (probably downloading initial textures, assets etc.) this is with looking at traffic captured via Wireshark, so there could possibly be a bug with the amount of bandwidth being reported? I regularly see "stats for nerds" allocate around 1.2Mbps to BO7 so i'm surprised it's running

I think there is some improvement but may not get you all the way, I've added you so you can check

To get an Open NAT you need an open route to the internet, with the setup you're going to use you would need to put it in the DMZ to do that. It's perfectly fine to do so, the R3 has its own firewall so it is protected

You've had a lot of good advice so far but to summarize: If you want to use all of the R3 functions, i.e. QoS, SmartBOOST etc then you need to do either of these options: If you only care about using the Geo-Filter then what you suggested originally will work:

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 . .

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Thank you, I'll pass it on!

im almost on your route..