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Psyduck321, are you on AT&T 1 Gig fiber? And if so your modem is the fiber modem they gave you. I ask because AT&T should be turning the fiber on in my neighborhood starting Dec 1 (according to the AT&T tech that was working in my neighborhood yesterday). and I am wondering if i will run into a similar issue. I have an R2 also and I just upgraded cable internet to 1000 mbps / 50 mbps and the R2 comes nowhere close to detecting the correct download speed. If I disable Qos completely, the speedtest from my ISP shows over 900 mbps / 50 mbps. With it on, download detects anywhere from 270-460 mbps and upload is correct. I dont plan on getting the 1 Gig fiber connection from At&T but will be plenty happy with 500/500 which is half the price of what im paying for internet now So my question to you Fraser, do you really need QoS on with a connection with that much bandwidth? To me, the whole point of the Dumas OS is the geo-filtering and the ping reduction which it does well. Speed is irrelevant (gigabit is overkill if you ask me) as most devices cannot make use of it and most gaming servers dont require that kind of bandwidth. Of course I wont know what the results will be until i actually get it installed and running. But if you have any ideas on getting it to properly detect anywhere near the correct download speed, i am all ears as the only thing I have not tried yet is factory reset. Thanks.

It's pretty much every website. Some load slower than others. The ones with lots of ad banners are the worst. The Google News app works fine though. And on PCs the adblocker being on does not affect the performance at all. It does what its supposed to do. I had to turn the adblocker off for now because it became a chore to web browse on the tablets which is what we usually web browse on.

Got a Netduma R2 a little over a week ago replacing a Netgear XR450 that I had to RMA back to Netgear because the flash memory would not save the settings every time the power on the router was reset. As for the R2, I really like the DumaOS 3.0 over the 2.0. The new added features such as the polygon boxes, the heat pingmap, connection benchmark, and adblocker are nice. I have never had much success with QoS with any router I have owned but that has more to do with my ISP than anything as I have been with the same one for over the last 15 years now but the R2 seems to work much more accurately than the XR450. My ping rates have improved a little with R2 over the XR450 and it more accurately shows which devices are connected to the router than the XR450 ever did. The wifi connection at 5 Ghz is fine for my house with the R2 though it was a good bit stronger with the XR450. The 2.4 Ghz on the XR450 was super strong and had really good range but 2.4 Ghz wifi on the R2 is flat out weak. I connected my wife's Huawei phone as it does not support 5 Ghz to the 2.4 Ghz. From about 10 ft away, it was connected at 6 Mbps. 6! Fortunately that is the only device that needs the 2.4 Ghz as all my other devices all support 5 Ghz and/or are hard wired directly as my house is wired completely with Cat 6 to each room. So improving the 2.4 Ghz wifi on the R2 is something that obviously needs some work. The R2 does not have as many networking options as Netgear routers but for most people it will work just fine. The only other complaint i have against the R2 is the adblocker. When its on, Chrome on Android tablets almost comes to a halt. Safari on the Ipads isnt much better. Since 2007, i started with a D-link DGL-4500, moved onto a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 in 2013, then last year moved to the Netgear Nighthawk XR450 and in less than year have moved to the R2 because of the hardware failure on the XR450. I really hope the Netduma R2 is a keeper for the next 5 years.