Killhippie

Why didn’t you just factory rest at the beginning? That would have sorted it surely, it's what people used to have to do. This bug goes all the way back to 2018 from what I remember. Also this router probably only gets security updates and Netgear used to check Netduma's code for compatibility, is that still happening? If not not you could have messed with the Netgear base firmware and proprietary blobs and caused an issues possibly.

Since this is technically a Netgear router have you patched security, applied the new Firewall rules that stop the paranoid port scan and other messages, updated OpenSSL etc? Also how do you update the proprietary blobs from Netgear for security issues?

The XR1000 is EOL pretty much. Netgear are a huge company and are moving on with Wi-Fi 7 don't blame Netgear they gave Netduma the chance but Netduma spent so time much patching their own routers that Netgear got fed up of waiting for Netduma to sort out their side of the firmware, also the agreement would have only been for so long anyway, and now Netduma are reinventing themselves as a QOE company. In the early days the R1 was something new but as routers got more powerful with better features and the gaming world changed any router is a gaming router these days, routers are all so much more powerful than the R2 and R3 now and with AI gaining ground fast Netduma are years behind I fear. Netduma have changed track for their future, as a AI router or even a 6E/7 router will game better than the R2 and R3. Netduma are not a hardware company hence QOE and the new name Optima! Surely you have noticed these forums are very quiet these days, that says a lot. A router that can work faster than a human with Dynamic QoS makes and real DPI with 2.6Ghz CPU's and huge amounts of ram to run AI which means Duma OS is obsolete and ad blockers belong on browsers not routers, but if you want that feature buy a Synology router which has that feature very well implemented, and with great firmware.

Also making a router with enough memory to handle its features would really help, cheapening out and changing names of features like WMM which every Wi-Fi router has isnt fooling anyone. People are moving on either to wifi 6E or 7 and this isn't even a wave 1 Wi-Fi 6 router. Not enough memory, not much flash ram and no proper OEM Wi-Fi drivers, just WRT ones that don't work well. This is why the router keeps having issues its cheaply made that's fine but don't cheap out on the internal hardware, most routers have 1GB ram, how much does the R3 256mb? Its just not enough with bloated code that needs more ram to function. Sorry but that's just my opinion. A memory leak on a R3 would sink the router in no time, and has! Thats why the GUI comes to a halt as memory issues freeze the router, also it should not keep needing to be rebooted, mine gets a reboot maybe every 3 months, and the ones at work I manage don't need one at all until we do a lift and shift of gear to the cloud. More money where it counts would have helped the R2 and R3 and not trying to make it look like a crab with collapsing antenna might have helped its cooling too.

Netgear are moving on as the Frankenstein firmware sandwich was a match made in hell. You really don't need a gaming router to game, most people know that these days as it was just a way of hiking prices for silly features and a OS that still has the same problems from the XR500 days.

Try looking at the rest of his reviews, very honest and not biased to any router manufacturer at all after all he has been around for a very long time.

https://dongknows.com/netduma-r3-gaming-router-review/

You do use a router that's EOL and is based on a chipset from 2015 (R7800 chipset) with reworked antennae which didn't give such good wireless. As above you wont ever get the full 1000Mbps as the router always has overheads as in it has to pass though the router, and never use QoS on anything above 200-300 Mbps, its not needed as you will never saturate your line apart from a speed test. Also don't use a router that sacrifices download and upload throughput to make buffer bloat better, you are loosing out on what you are paying for if you do, and apart from downloading which will be at the speeds Microsoft servers dictate by throttling your connection on downloading games so people cant overload their servers otherwise their over heads would be huge, a Gaming Console needs very little throughput in actual use.

I thought malloc/free had been deprecated since C++11 since the latest edition is C++20

Which QoS were you using on Asuswrt-Merlin? Normally you have a choice of a few

Damn difficult to downgrade to no firmware really, since it's been stated that is the very first firmware for the S24 Ultra. <ahem>

oops wrong forum post

Eric probably wont mind I spelt his name wrong. Asuswrt-Merlin is an alternative, customized version of that firmware. Developed by Eric Sauvageau, its goals were to enhance the existing firmware without major changes, and to fix any known issues, while keeping the performance the same as the original. Also Asus are always ahead because they release updates showing the CVE's in the firmware and as we know all routers need security updates, Asus had a few major ones last year like in September when they fixed three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-39238, CVE-2023-39239, CVE-2023-39240) in some of their routers.

Honestly you have a great router in the Asus GT-AX6000 which is so much more powerful with more options that the R3 I have to be honest and just wonder why you in my view stepped down to a base level gaming router. That Asus router has far superior hardware with a 2Ghz CPU and twin 2.5G WAN/LAN ports and usb 2 and usb 3 ports and great software. You may be able to put Melin's software on it too which would give you even more options for things like QoS etc it honestly leaves the R3 in the dust, no offence to Netduma its just that the Asus has such good hardware and software.

ET phone home?