Harley

I've given up. I sold my XR1000 and bought something else instead. The problem is that the XR1000 had a problem with the very thing I needed most. My connection suffers from bad buffer bloat, but there is a bug in the XR1000 that affects the solution if you happen to have a PPPoE connection - which I do. I waited nearly two years, I couldn't wait any longer. I use Cake now in a Merlin Asus, which does the job perfectly. Not sure whether to be nice or nasty to Netduma over this. On the one hand, other companies are just as bad for not fixing problems in routers, so you can't really single them out. On the other hand, Netduma has the will, but not the way - it seems that their testing process is just bogging them down. From my perspective, the company has two alternatives, the first is to get the testing sorted, the second is to give up on anything other than really serious updates and concentrate on new products - I would have been happy if I could have bought an XR2000. As it stands, though, waiting two years and having nothing to show is not a great thing.

I picked up a broken XR1000 the other day, and indeed, it really was broken! But the Antenna are fine. They are original Netgear SMA female connectors. If anyone wants them, they can have them free. Just let me know.

Well there is a fix on the way, I believe. Also, it doesn't look like you have that much of a problem with bufferbloat anyway, so I would wait for the fix.

Buffer bloat doesn't work on the XR1000 if you have a pppoe connection. This is the result for me with the XR1000... And this is the result for me with the XR700......

I have finished blinging my XR1000. What do you think? Enough LED's or maybe some more?

I have Torguard and get very good speeds. Up to about 200mbps. I also have WTF but this depends as to whether you actually have a problem. The results vary. I used to have HMA and they are beyond terrible. The truth is that while they hide your a**, they do not protect it at all. If you do anything dodgy they will report you. I clicked on a link once, entirely by accident, and it started downloading a file. I stopped it immediately. However, turned out that it was a copyrighted file and the owner went after me. They contacted HMA. HMA promptly warned me (meaning they had kept records) and said if I ever did anything like that again, they would hand the information over to the copyright holder.

There seems to be a lot of Star Wars around at the moment....

I've seen mine do this before. It's "apparently" given two addresses to the same device. I think it's just giving it a second one without actually releasing the first. I'm not very knowledgeable about that, so I could be wrong, but it will eventually update and never seems to cause any harm.

I must confess, I am starting to get a little impatient here. I have been waiting for 18 months now for a fix to the QOS for the XR1000. One of the most important features for me is the ability to limit bandwidth when I am playing a game, to reduce upload buffer bloat. This is a feature that doesn't work (you told me) because of the type of connection I have (pppoe or something). I seem to remember in the distant past using two routers to test this. Using two proves the point but is not a workable long-term solution. As an alternative to a bug fix, I wouldn't mind if a new router was released or something, but the lack of communication on all matters is slowly pushing me towards buying some other make. I love DumaOS, I really do, and I certainly do not want to abandon it, but the dog needs a bone.

Oh, I would find in really useful. It's important for me that the router realises I am playing a game and how much easier that it indicates it has an issue without me having to log in to it.

Ah, some interesting ones popped up from tp-link and MSI ..... this is the sort of thing I am talking about.

Why so rude, I wonder? The reason it would be important for me, is when I am playing a game it's not convenient to log in to the router, but I need to know if the router recognises the game that I'm playing. How much easier it would be to just look at the router and see. It could be implemented as say an option for one LED, so people could choose what they want displayed.

Did I mention this before? I think I might have done. PLEAAASE!! Add a LED that lights up when the router detects a game. Much easier than having to go inside it to check.

When was the V2 released? (not the firmware, the product).

I used to get this sort of issue when Openreach was doing local maintenance. Always seemed to be late in the evening at about the same time.

Did you factory reset the modem after you upgraded it? You should.

Oh hi! It's a little thing that appears on the top right of your browser screen when you are browsing certain sites. The most notable recent one is ebay. Just go to ebay and browse and it will appear after a minute or two. I did find a solution at one point. I believe there are two web addresses that need to be blocked. I subsequently lost the fix and besides, not everything has a blocker that can be configured.

I know this is a silly request because no doubt some people use this feature of websites, but I would give gold for my router to block "sign in with Google". It's appearing on more and more websites and its so darn annoying. 😡

Not if they can install the file themselves. You wouldn't have to do anything.

I don't have a 500, I have a 700 and 1000. The 700 I just keep as an emergency backup. Updates have been a lot slower that even I anticipated, and at this rate I suppose I could end up with a new router with the 700 put out to grass. I guess that's life. In fairness to Netduma most manufacturers don't update their old routers they just replace them with new ones. I actually wouldn't mind that. I would love Netduma to come out with a top-end router. I just get bored when nothing happens at all!

Referring to firmware updates! It seems a very long time since we have had an update from "latest firmware was sent to Netgear"!!!

Perhaps you could introduce a file in later products that is replaceable. Then set up a community open-source project on this forum to allow users to translate - making very clear that you guys are not responsible for miss-translations. I am certain that this is something enthusiasts would do.

The only problem with automated systems is they themselves need to be updated and tested all the time. It's fine when you are just debugging but if you change the functionality of the product in any way then the test system needs to be changed and then itself retested. If a product has a larger number of spec changes then It's not practical for a small company to implement because it costs more money and time than manually retesting everything. Anyway, we have no idea what goes on inside the company so we can't really say. Having said that, it has been a very long time since a status changed on the progress page! I have pretty much given up hope of there being new releases this year. *sighs*

Maybe this could be hidden in a power saving feature - Power Saving Schedule Power the product on everyday at - xx:xx Power the product off everyday at - xx:xx

It was aimed at readers who have enough software knowledge and know that some bugs are easy to fix, but they don't have experience of professional test departments so they don't know that even a simple fix requires a LOT of testing. Grief, I bet I get as impatient as the financial dept does when a product is not released, but I have a lot of respect for managers who listen to the testers when they say "no, can't release it yet". We can only assume if the company had more resources they would throw them at testing, but what do we know? The same rules don't apply to every product or every company. Anyway, I hate waiting too, but you know at least NetDuma actually release updates, some companies never seem to even do that.