IrishNomad

>1Gbps Rx/Tx isn't a waste when you have a large household of people using the Internet simultaneously. You're right where you're not going to get >1Gbps on any single connection. But when you combine multiple connections (downloads, streaming, etc.) it's nice to have all that bandwidth so us gamers don't have to suffer through limited bandwidth with congestion. I also think a 2.5Gb WAN port would have been nice so those of us who do have >1Gbps Internet could have at least utilized all the bandwidth we're paying our ISP for and honestly I don't think that single port would have made this router cost much more to produce or any harder to develop firmware for.

would have traded RGB for some 2.5GBE ports

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.

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!

Before I place my order for the R3 (see this is maybe the only way out of my numerous issues on my XR500) please can you confirm:
- DHCP bug is no longer present so I can let the router allocate IPs correctly just like any router should (I would hope so as I assume netgear are no longer involved in this) 
- QOS isn't causing websites to no load (such as Twitch) so I don't have to no longer keep having to toggle it on and off to load a simple website? 

That was a XR series bug to related to the Netgear developed settings so isn't applicable here. I've not encountered anything like that so far

That does make sense but the WD drive has it's own external power supply and is visible on the above mentioned DumaOS page.

Thank you Fraser, I appreciate it 👍

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.