Mr_Meeseeks

I bought the R3 mainly for the Geo-Filter so that I can host games with my friends on the west coast and connect to servers in the middle so we can all have good pings while playing and so far so good, when it's working it works great.  
we have gig fiber speeds are roughly 990down/995up on average on most tests straight from the Eero<unmanaged switch<ethernet to my PC (entire house is CAT6E) 
Here is my question, can I put the Eero in front of the R3 to use as my router and then add the R3 to DMZ to control just my PC to use Geofilter?  Does this make sense?  
I have 60+ wireless smart devices/TV's/Alexa's/Alarm system and 6 cameras etc. and I am not 100% confident that the R3 is designed to handle this size network and it's going to only grow as I add more smart devices to my home.  
I have it set up currently ethernet from ISP<R3<ethernet to my PC from R3<Ethernet from R3 to Eero(in Bridge mode)<Ethernet from R3 to unmanaged switch where my hardwired rooms connect. 
Even with Smartboost turned off I am seeing issues with devices having slow speeds upstairs that are connecting to the Eero (I have 3 Eero pro 6's to cover the house and backyard) where before the R3 was added to the network I had zero issues at anytime of day.  It's not traffic based as we live in a small town and not very many people have the gig fiber here yet and talking with my ISP they have not seen any heavy traffic issues on the network. 
Any and all suggestions wold be appreciated.  Hope this makes sense as I am an old man who is as ADD as they come lol and I type how the thoughts enter my scatter brain. 🙂  
 

tried changing the dns from (1.1.1.1) (1.0.0.1) to (8.8.8.8) (8.8.4.4)
 
that seems to fix it will test and let you know if it get the error again

tried changing the dns from (1.1.1.1) (1.0.0.1) to (8.8.8.8) (8.8.4.4)
 
that seems to fix it will test and let you know if it get the error again

Same here I had the xr1000 and was in same location and configuration as r3 and r3 has considerably weaker wifi

+1 to this. Just received my R3 today, updated and running .23 and made the changes mentioned above.... considerably weaker wifi signal. Compared to a XR1000 which was my older router

after i wake my computer or from start up, i dont have internet for about 30 secs. im currently on version 4.0.23 

same issue on firmware version 4.0.23 

Can any one help me with port forwarding my Xbox-X ..  i have all the port Numbers that need opened .. this format is different then the R2 .. and my XR1000   .. can any one walk me though the setup .. ?????  i dont see a manual or guide for the R3 yet .. 

What’s new in version 4.0.21? 

the firmware did not fix this issue

It’s a shame netgear won’t be supported anymore 

It’s a shame netgear won’t be supported anymore 

you could connect a router that allows mesh to the r3 via ether net but you would have two separate WIFI networks with the mesh network not having the features of the r3. 
 
alternatively you could buy two R3's and have two separate wifi networks and label them upstairs and down stair as an example.
 
and lastly but not the most preferably you could set up wifi repeaters 

Since one one said it yet, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the USA

Comparing the specs of the xr1000 and R3 
r3 -
256 Flash 256 ram
1.5Ghz quad core CPU
xr1000 -
256 Flash 512 ram
1.5Ghz triple core CPU
Less ram compared to the xr1000 seams concerning 

hope Santa's helpers are working overtime on the R3

hope Santa's helpers are working overtime on the R3

Yep same here just bought the xr1000 too, kind of feel foisted

What are the dimensions of the R3?