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If you want to use your full 1.5gb link then I would suggest using 2 routers. One main router that has atleast 2.5gb Ethernet for everything else except gaming and using netduma r3 for gaming. Forward the ports needed for your games to netduma r3

Did you disable Speedtest bypass while running these tests?? And you have to set it to always on instead of auto. Otherwise it will only work once priority traffic detected

Can you login to netduma router and check WAN IP information. Does the IP start with 192? Also the router you used before netduma you had a Open nat type? And it would help if you can tell us the model of your ISP modem / gateway to see if there’s a guide online to put it in bridge mode

You have to make sure your ISP modem/gateway assigns your netduma r3 a public IP address. The only way you would get a strict nat is having 2 firewalls in your network. (Your gateway/modem is in router mode and you’ve assigned your netduma r3 a private ip address) I don’t thing Upnp is the issue because if you had a public IP assigned to the netduma r3 and you don’t enable upnp you would have a moderate nat.

That’s a known bug with congestion control.. rebooting the router fixes it.

Every ISP is different.. but you have to sacrifice speed for better bufferbloat. I would suggest testing your throughput with smart boost disabled, this will disable congestion control. Hopefully you will see your full speeds. But with smart boost / congestion control you will not see 950/950. I have google fiber and I’m only able to get 900/900 with smart boost and congestion control enabled.

I been said they should sell us a license sort of how Mikrotik sells RouterOS. We could use our own router that has much better hardware. I feel like netduma finds the most budget hardware that’s capable of running their software. I can’t blame them because it saves money and makes them more money but there’s lots of enthusiasts like me that want the best and don’t mind paying for better

Steady ping has a bug, it keeps getting re enabled after you disable it. Especially when you constantly reboot. Another option that does this is Speedtest bypass.. after every reboot you have to login and disable those settings

I said this before on an older post. Steady ping is a game changer for COD… but if your playing better when your ping is higher that makes GEO filter useless. Unless you are using GEO filter to get the higher ping lobbies lol. I stopped using geo filter and only use steady ping. Think of all the people using GEO filter for call of duty to get the lowest ping possible and it’s only making them perform worse because they are at a disadvantage.. that sucks

I second this.. only issue I experience is random drop outs every few hours other than that the router is perfectly fine for me

Yes to me when I have a ping of 6ms in cod it feels like everyone else is ahead of me by so much.. but when my ping is higher around 30ms everything feels so fluid. Call of duty is punishing low ping players. But they have to do that because the low ping player will be destroying the lobby

I know the main selling point for this router is GEO filter. I personally don’t use it. The reason I get netduma routers is because of the crispy hit detection I get no matter the ping in game. I’ve tried plenty different routers.

Here’s my setup, I set everything up to have bare minimum CPU usage, I pretty much only want gaming traffic to be prioritized I have wireless disabled (I have a dedicated WiFi 7 access point connected with Ethernet) I have RGB turned completely off Adblock Disabled I don’t use GEO filter and I turned steady ping off I have ipv6 disabled Port scan disabled and firewall disabled Custom DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 , 8.8.4.4 Congestion Control settings 70% download and upload I have smart boost on with gaming priority set at 1000 Weird bug I found is steady ping and Speedtest bypass setting will reenable itself automatically. I have to manually change it after every reboot. You can try these settings and see if you still have problems but with those settings I only get random connection drops every once in a while

What firmware are you on.. I’m on .41 and haven’t experienced those issues. But I have experienced some random connection drops causing me to lag for about 10 secs and it goes away.

I think it’s built from Openwrt. When I click on network on my PC it says netduma is a openwrt router I’m not going to lie after watching his videos he made the router sound game changing. I definitely bought after that. But once I received it I had mixed emotions.

You most definitely asked when it’s coming out. THATS A ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL

He said he’s not giving any ETA because of how everything went last time

On both routers you need the ports to be open

70/70 is recommended but it depends on your ISP. For to test congestion control properly you need to disable geo filter, steady ping and smart boost. Also you need to have Speedtest bypass set to off and have congestion control on always. The way I test it is having 2 PCs to test everything. 1 PC for monitoring network and 1 PC for running waveform or real world usage like you were doing 3 4k streams. Run test with 100% on upload/download see how that performs, adjust it until you can get no more than 5ms increase under load.

You tried disabling ipv6 in advanced wan settings? Something is telling me this is a ISP block. You have done pretty much everything I would have done. You reset internet modem and netduma router, pretty much everything I would have done.

Has to be your ISP because I’m able to get a full 900mbps with less than 5ms. There’s something that you can try if you have a crappy ISP and really want low bufferbloat. I just don’t recommend this setup because of the extra processing with 2 routers. - Get a router such as UDM Pro SE or a strong x86 router with openwrt installed. UDM pro se has very good QOS. Openwrt has cake SQM very strong qos. Bufferbloat will be minimal. Connect the r3 to that and put the r3 in DMZ mode.

I’ve read where someone posted earlier and their ISP had a router limit. Meaning their ISP only allowed 2 routers before they started blocking any new routers from connecting. If I were you I would try calling them. Seems like you tried everything else.

Looks like your getting a random 100mbps full duplex instead of 1000mbps full duplex

Yes this is normal on that firmware. You need to upgrade to the latest unofficial one .41

Switching routers can cause DHCP issues with the devices. Every time you switch a router you need to reset / forget the old network settings. Trust me it’s not netduma. I switch back and forward from router to router constantly and my devices sometimes won’t connect to the router because of DHCP issue. Sometimes the DHCP correctly assigns a IP and sometimes it doesn’t.