I do want to say a couple positives first coming from the XR1000.
1. The new DUMA OS design is fantastic, it's clean, simple and elegant.
2. I'm not sure if this applies to all Netduma products but coming from the XR1000 the OS is feels super responsive and turning it on/off is really quick having it be this responsive is fantastic and the companion app works just as well on my phone/ laptop
3. The unit itself is sleek and visually appealing.
4. IPV6 actually works unlike the Xr1000 which seems to constantly drop connection randomly and wont come back unless i disable ipv6 making it unusable. Huge W
5. UPNP Seems to be working fine. Tested a couple games on my PC and my Switch and NAT is working out of the gate as intended (I tested with IPV6 off for this)
Overall I would say it's a great unit at a great price and functionally isn't broken like the XR1000 has been for.. well since release.
I am very happy to jump from Netgear to Netduma they are the real Chads.
Now the performance issues which I am hoping are bugs or can be patched/ addressed in a future firmware or perhaps I have somehow setup the router incorrectly but will do more testing tomorrow as I have only had a day to play with it now.
1.The WiFi doesn't appear to have nearly as good a range as my XR1000. I have a couple devices about 3 meters below it and they all have really poor quality connection. In fact my XR1000 is about 20 meters away setup in AP mode through several walls and almost all my devices prefer connecting to it despite it physically being the furthest away by far. And despite being further away it actually does outperform it. Something seems off with this if I go 5 meters away I seem to have poor connection quality and going downstairs just doesn't work despite it being mounted vertically.
2. WiFi performance - I have 1000/50 connection. On Ethernet I get 960/51 reliably. Testing on my Iphone and my Macbook pro about 2 meters away from the R3 router I am getting 350/33 on 5ghz channel. I also tested different bandwidths and channels and that was the best of the bunch. If I left it on auto I was getting about 260/33. On the 2.4 ghz It was even worse. I am getting 105/23. I plugged my XR1000 and repeated the same test on same frequency and channels and I was getting 830/49 on 5ghz and 210/42 on the 2.4 ghz channel.
So ethernet wise it performs about equal with the XR1000 give or take but at such high speeds it's within margin of error but the wifi performance is less then half of the XR1000 which seems straight up wrong or un-optimised.
3. I am getting really bad ping in games. My normal latency for games in Australia (I live close to the servers) is 4ms across, WOW, League, SWTOR, and pretty much any game which has Oceanic servers. However I am getting about 22 average ping on the new router. I'm not sure if this is due to some weird optimisation happening at the software level but I plugged my XR1000 in and ping went back to 4ms solid. So no idea what's causing that? (These ping results purely from Ethernet for consistency) I did try the ping reducer and also tried setting manually capping much lower for QOS and prioritised my PC and disconnected everything else from the network but still ping was the same.
So in conclusion it seems like the unit has great potential and i'm excited to join the Netduma train... goodbye Netgear but right now the Wifi seems completely broken. @Netduma Fraser i'm sorry for the long post write up but thought I would create a post in case you have any suggestions. Happy to try anything you suggest.
Cheers,
