IrishNomad

When an 8 port 2.5Gb switch can be bought for less than $100, it makes me wonder.

That is a viable solution but it would just be nice for an all in one solution. Maybe on the R4!

Oh I'm sure you're correct. It would just be nice to have a future proofed device personally.

It's not absurd or unnecessary for future proofing and more importantly, LAN traffic such as a NAS or media server.

This is one device I seriously considered because of it's price/performance ratio. I think a direct comparison of the ping and gaming performance between that and the R3 would be very interesting.

Well this would only be done by users that own both and I don't see a reason to include other routers except these since they're well known for being the top QoS routers. I'll wait till the R3 ships and then open a new thread to see if anyone would be up for it!

I would love to see a head to head review of the new R3 vs an equally powerful OpenWRT powered router with Cake QoS. Compare all features but focus on lag and ping reduction.

No, I've never used that feature as that would still require manual work to name everything to begin with. With so many names being Null or something else totally unidentifiable, figuring out what's what would take hours. If I'd started a list from scratch when first connecting everything I can see that being a great idea but since I switched to an external AP long after the fact, that's not something I want to take hours to do.

That's way too much work that really shouldn't be required and I agree, managing from the AP is the only way to get accurate info about devices now it seems. Not being named properly or being able to tell offline or online, makes most of the DumaOS useless. Most people want to plug and play, not plug and config for hours on end. That's time away from gaming lol. I enjoy tweaking on devices that are made for that but a device made for simplicity, I just want it to work. In all fairness I guess I'm asking a little much by wanting to run my own AP but a guy can wish for the best of both worlds. Maybe an R4 Pro with 2.5G ports and AP support will be in the future 😁

I really don't want to make over 35 devices lol and there's still the issue of incorrectly showing online and offline.

Hmm do your devices correctly show online or offline? That's another issue I have in addition to most being named Null. I use a TP-Link HD660 and on the AP GUI, it correctly names my 35+ devices. I had none of these issues when using the XR WiFi.

I'm curious how your R2 handles using access points. Technically mine work with my XR but doesn't recognize devices correctly at all. Does your R2 identity them correctly?

Thank you Fraser, I appreciate it 👍

That is correct, they still show on Device Manager, although constantly switching between online and offline. And most are not identifying correctly as when connected directly to the XR's wireless and show as Null. In order to see what devices I need to adjust QoS settings for, I have to access my AP's GUI, find the device and it's IP address, and then go back to the XR and search for that IP.

The user manual says 50-70 clients per band but I thought I remembered it being much lower, and had issues once mine went over 25. It would be great if this fixed worked but my AP is WiFi 6 and I'm not sure I want to give up that benefit. I guess I'd have to choose either WiFi 6 or working device manager?

I've had my XR500 for years and my device list is now over 40. I had to switch to using an external access point to continue using the XR500 because it was dropping clients left and right. The biggest issue with using an external AP is that Device Manager is pretty much useless now. Other than that, all my devices connect and stay connected.

RJ45 is not the limiting factor in speed, it's either the cable being used or the hardware of the device.

To update to R14, you can just download the new firmware from the Dropbox link and upload it from the DumaOS update page. Checking for new firmware only checks with Netgear servers I believe, not Netduma.

Rebooted the XR and nothing has changed in the Device Manager.

I've ran a scan with the Fing app on my phone and it detects everything just fine. Yes 40 devices is why I had to switch to an external AP. Just too many for the XR to handle and I was dropping connections constantly.

Okay so I changed the XR to a .22 subnet and the AP to a .23. And yes, everything was connected to the AP and being given IPs from the XR but just not showing correctly under Device Manager. Now after the changes, I need to restart each device? I have over 40.. Would rebooting the XR accomplish the same thing or no?

Yes it is a Omada AP connected via RJ-45. I am able to assign a static IP to it as well. So if I changed the XR500 to 192.168.22.1, then the AP would need to be on a different subnet? Example 192.168.23.2?

Gave it a try and no change. Still have most of my devices on Offline, named Null or both. Thanks for the suggestion though!

Are there any plans to address the issues when using an external AP? Such as in the Device Manager where most of my devices say they're offline and are named "Null".