Proud R3 Owner

Just pre-ordered the R3. Actually feels really good to walk away from the usual name brands in networking. I'd honestly rather support a smaller company like netduma that seems to really care about it's user base and believes its product. Cheers to the entire team and I'm looking forward to being a true part of the netduma family instead of an ugly Netgear XR step-child.

Debating on ordering as an upgrade from the xr700. Just a little apprehensive as I have a larger household with lots of devices. The xr700 handles all my traffic rather well but I'd honestly really like to walk away from Netgear for obvious reasons. I do have >1Gbps Internet as well (around 1200/40). Aside from the wireless as I have 2 APs to handle WiFi, what would be the benefits to upgrade to the R3?

So when in ping assist mode with my home location in the middle of the ocean with the radius as small as possible, I'm supposed to enable filtering? I thought it was supposed to be turned off. I usually get ~30ms in other games but in WOW I get 50ms or more. Also when choosing wow in geofilter when I add my laptop it tells me filtering isn't recommended. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Application name: World of Warcraft Device type used for capture: PC (laptop) Apps running at time of recording: Blizzard Launcher I hope this helps. If you need anything else just let me know. WoW 1.pcapng WoW 2.pcapng

Well I don't really geofilter, I use ping assist mode so whatever server is ~30ms should auto connect wherever that server is located. I assume servers would be dedicated, I know Microsoft bought blizzard a little while ago so not really sure if world of warcraft is played on the Microsoft network now or still just using their original ones.

So I don't know if this helps. I'm currently using it as laptop in device manager. When I select World of Warcraft in the list it tells me not to filter (which I don't anyway). This is what I get when in-game. Obviously I don't play in a windowed box like that but you get the idea. If there's anything else I can do to help out I'd be more than happy to.

When I log on to a character or in random dungeons or raids, I'm not seeing any servers on geofilter. I've also gone so far as to label my PC as an Xbox in devices and still no servers show up. On 3.3 beta with Geo set up in ping assist mode (small circle in the middle of the ocean).

I have copper cable with Cox on their gigablast package (1Gb down 35Mb up). To get a good bufferbloat score I have my sliders set to 50% download and 35% upload. Other settings include priority set to gaming at 25, media and uncategorized set to 20, everything else is where it ends up. I also don't use geofilter but rather ping assist (tiny circle set in the middle of the ocean) with assist set to 40ms. I seem to get good results with where I'm at.

@Netduma Fraser I haven't tried that yet but I will when I'm home next. @Mobel That makes sense but it's a bit confusing. I was expecting something like the web gui where when you reboot it tells you it'll take 3-4 minutes letting you know it's rebooting. The error message just looks like something went wrong with the reboot command (until you figure out you don't have Internet anymore).

Nothing to lose sleep over, @Netduma Fraser, but when using the app - settings then reboot I get this error screen. This comes after the confirmation pop-up. It does still reboot the router but I just thought you'd like to know. This is on Android 12 - App v3.3.28

Hey I wonder if you set your Xbox IP static in the lan settings in reservation table, then set your Xbox as dmz in wan settings if you'd have the same issue. Wouldn't really be a fix but a possible workaround.

I'd first turn off your cable modem, plug in your laptop/PC directly to the modem, power the modem back on and once you get an IP and Internet on your device - try a speed test directly from the modem to your device. It'll definitely tell you whether it's your ISP or the router. If you're getting your full speed from your ISP during that test, turn off your modem and reconnect your router then power then both back on... Go into your router admin and turn off QoS and do another speed test. If you're getting your ISP speeds without QoS then adjust your sliders and maybe set congestion control to auto instead of always on. Also I'd set your max download and upload speed you got from your direct modem test to QoS settings. Can't really comment on the wifi radio issues though.

Aww that setup screen is way cooler looking than the one we got on the xr700 😕

I personally use sfp for my wan on the xr700 and have other routers in AP mode to distribute WiFi (ax11000 WiFi 6 and c5400x WiFi 5). Both setup with smart connect so it's kinda like a ghetto mesh but more expensive? I would totally buy a $700 beast router from netduma if they came out with something better than the xr700. C'mon boys, take my money!!! 😆

I've said this before and I still stand by it. I've tried many other routers in the interim waiting for an update to the 3.0 beta the xr700 was on for years. The reasons I stayed with the xr700 were the bulk raw power, sfp, and DumaOS. I don't use the wifi as and I don't use the integrated Plex server. Matter of fact, even routers with similar muscle just don't compare in features that DumaOS have. I think the xr700 as just a router is as close to perfect as I can find. Now that being said, if netduma can come up with a similar device with newer features and more frequent updates, I'm on board.

Hey xr700 owners had to wait since December 9th 2020 until July 24th 2023 for a new beta. Could be worse ya know. 🤷‍♂️

Well that's why I'd like to see this beta as official, at least we can keep getting security updates on 3.3

@Netduma Fraser Hey are you guys gonna submit this beta to NG for official release?

I personally use 50% download 95% upload.

I agree with some of this. The constant popping up of the tutorials does get a little old. Not a deal breaker for me though. I don't really use geofilter except for ping assist mode. Honestly I've tried other routers and get pings higher than what I'd like and suffer because of it (i.e getting shot behind a wall because in reality I'm not behind it). Now I'm getting servers less than 20 or 30ms. Now my kids and I don't worry about lag spikes or high latency servers. Only other thing I don't like is there's only 4 devices on geofilter. Trust me, adding and removing devices gets old too. But, this is what we do when we want good servers. It's not perfect, but it's as close as we'll get with having the amount of control we do with DumaOS.

I had thought about it after getting the Archer ax11000 and being disappointed a bit. I thought Asus might have done it a bit better. Honestly it came down to netduma. After having this much control and power on the xr700 I wasn't willing to go back to a similar gaming router that was watered down. If the xr700 would have had an 8 antenna configuration with tri-band that didn't give you a full useless band (802.11ad) and have mesh capabilities - it would have been the perfect router for the era it was released. I only use the xr700 as a router, the wifi is completely disabled on it. I have an older c5400x and the ax11000 both setup as hardwired APs with smart connect on and they cover my entire house and 1/4 acre yard with excellent signal.

@DARKNESS No just 1 port to 1 switch. We have multiple wired TVs, consoles and PCs. I've got a wife and 4 kids with a rather large house. Matter of fact I use a c5400x and an ax11000 as APs - I don't even use the wifi on the xr700. We just have a lot of stuff to hardwire. We use wireless as well but only when we have to.

@DARKNESS 4-5 ports? Sounds more like a small switch bud. I have my house hardwired cat8 and have all 6 ports used going to gigabit switches on the xr700. I've used a lot of routers and to me the TP-Link Archer ax11000 and Asus ROG rapture gt-ax11000 got it right on a lot of levels. I honestly think with stronger hardware, a few more bells and whistles including DumaOS - you'd have a game changing router.

I mean honestly I'd take 8 lan ports with 2 able to trunk and if the sfp port was set to wan then the 2.5Gb port could switch to lan. Then they could come out with gaming smart switches that go with the DumaOS 4.0 with a 2.5Gb link port. That would kinda be baller imo. And RGB logo a waste of money??? Don't you know when you add RGB you automatically get higher speeds... Cuz you know... Science. Honestly I think the RGB logo would be nice as some people have their router incorporated with their gaming setup on the desk. That way it could add to the aesthetic of the whole concept people would go for. I'm not really like that personally but some are. Honestly if it didn't have that I wouldn't care. I stick with the xr700 purely for the unadulterated raw power it has and I think if NetDuma came out with something even more powerful cutting the Netgear bs out (cuz you know that's where most issues come from ie DHCP issues and getting official fw out) people would ditch the 700 and 1000 and move strictly to netduma.

Oh sorry read that a bit wrong then. I retract that statement then about taking that bug, it should totally be fixed lol. 😆 I'm totally digging this new fw btw, I've drastically reduced ping in most games with the optimizer and setting geo for ping assist only.