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?

I saw that Broadcom SoC, a 2x2 not a 4X4. It actually supports 6E too. I wonder if the R3 used Broadcom drivers instead of generic drivers if the WI-Fi would be more stable?

Whats RAPP got to do with Netgear, they waited for your builds I thought? Or is that not the case.

Thats not the same as a ISP DNS server using DNSSEC (which mine does) which safeguards DNS data against various cyber threats, such as DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijacking, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

I have a 6E router a Netgear RAXE500 that has a Broadcom BCM4908 1.8Ghz quad core SoC that has the ability to do all the subsets of 6E but its up to the vendor to decide for SOHO routers what to use for the user and the clients also need to support WPA3 etc most routers have WPA2-WPA3 AES and a good password is the best protection. As to the R3 I would say its more wifi 5.5 than 6 from what I can see and its not stellar Wi-Fi which as a home replacement router will have to deal with IoT clients which don't always come with Ethernet ports, like phones, wifi cameras and tablets etc. I would not trust the R3 to do that well as it has not from what I can tell been tested in a Lab environment like a Octoscope. people think this router is gaming only well if it was then the wifi would not matter, but its touted as a home router, so Wi-Fi is very important.

Just use Cloudflare or any third party DNS provider that supports DNSSEC as this is provided by the DNS resolver at the ISP end. Its not a router function. see link for details. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/dns/dnssec/how-dnssec-works/

Does the R3 have BSS and TWT? BSS Colouring helps mitigate interference in crowded Wi-Fi environments by distinguishing between neighbouring networks, while TWT is a power-saving mechanism that allows devices to schedule their wake times for data transmission and reception, improving energy efficiency, both are parts of Wi-Fi 6. Shame its not got more memory.

For a start Netgear are not really supporting Netduma products by the looks of it and many routers like the XR500/XR450 and XR300 and XR700 are end of life, this means no patches from Netgear or security support after 5 years from release, if you have one of these get a new router just for your own security, as Netduma are now trying to juggle their firmware and a bunch of Linux code with proprietary blobs from Netgear they cant update as they have no access to it. Please note Netduma handle the gaming side but the code they cant update is the base router code for security and bugs in Netgear's own firmware. The only router currently supported still is the XR1000 by the looks of it. If Netgear were going to put a full 6E Netduma router out that would have happened by now. Netgear are moving on to Wi-Fi 7 as is every other manufacturer now. A routers life is about 5 years then move on, and if you have FTTP over 300MBps you dont need QoS anyway. Get a pi-hole if you want to block adverts instead.

A Morris Minor from 1967 gets the job done but does not mean you should drive it on today's roads, that's my point. The R1 is old, slow, has bad Wi-Fi and probably cannot cope with FTTP speeds, and since FTTP roll outs are happening fast better hardware is needed, and better security transparency also. Enjoy your R1 I know we get attached to things but seriously it needs updating, and the R2 is abysmal in my view, better things are sure to come from Netduma I believe.

Its CPU is very underpowered, it cant deal with high speed FTTP, and the R2 was way underpowered as well sadly. Still a dual core CPU thats under 1Ghz, and only 32 bit in an age where all routers are 64 bit and are 1.5Ghz up to 2.6Ghz, mines 1.8Ghz (they can do more calculations per second now) I use a Netgear RAXE500 with its QoS and no lag, I game great, I don't need to tweak as it tweaks itself faster than I can and its been up since January when the last firmware update came out with no reboots. I think Netduma will move forwards soon with better hardware, the Wi-Fi support on the R1 is appalling but it is old. WiFi 7 will have lower latency and 10Gbps ports as standard and will be faster up to 40Gbps with latency under 1ms, that's better than Ethernet cables around your house. Even wifi 6 is better and thats what the PS5 uses with much better security with WPA3 AES Encryption. Even now 6E is just surfacing, I game over Wi-Fi using Wi-Fi 6 with WPA3 on my 1200 series PS5 and I am hammering Destiny 2 having a great time, killing in the crucible, smashing raids and no lag no rubber banding, my router has very low latency which helps, so its horses for courses on what you like. I don't think you need gaming routers to game, you need skill and practice really, but if you want gaming kit get something secure and with modern quad core 64 bit SoC's, also the components in your router are ageing, capacitors etc, get another router as a back up, maybe a XR500 if you can find one. Avoid the R2 is not a great router spec wise and it runs hot (sorry Netduma but you know I'm right) but keep your eye out, Netduma are aware I believe they need better hardware and will pull a rabbit out the hat sometime I bet to get back on top, and to those that use Duma to cheat, that's just sad and I hope Netduma address that. I hope your R1 keeps going but seriously get a spare router as it wont last for ever, and after all this time the capacitors may be bulging or leaking (new hardware uses smd MLLC ceramic capacitors and other smd ceramic components) so nothing to leak or go pop and the R1's power supply may well be will be going soft if its the original, typically a routers useful life span is 5 years hardware wise. Some may go on for years but some may die the first day (rare now) its hard to say hence improvements in new PCB's makes a difference. New hardware has at least 1GB of ram and 512 of Flash NAND, the R1 really is to slow for today's gaming world and internet in general and has little in the way of security to keep you safe online. Anyway enjoy it while you can and I hope you have a few more updates but you wont get all the new goodies as it cant support them sadly. Have fun with it while you can though 🙂

8 year old R1 router really needs updating, its specs are way out of date. I dont imagine it will get many more updates as its hardware is so limited. I mean the latest wifi 7 gear has 2.6Ghz quad core CPU's and can handle 200 clients!