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It's due/scheduled for this week, it'll be a different version to .23

I believe it is the CPU issue you're experiencing, the firmware is due this week and not only will the CPU usage be drastically reduced, the higher ping/jitter caused by it should be resolved as well. As lot of fixes/improvements in this one I believe.

Same here. This was a more extreme case to be fair, usually its just the one core at 95% usage or so while 2 other stay around the 40 - 50% range and of course the one core not being utilized at all, but every once in a while this happens.

I was reading through and decided to not make a post just echoing others. Didn't mean to hijack this one. I have lowered speeds, poor wifi performance, custom GEO (same one I use on the XR1000) allowing servers outside of my designated area, terrible latency variance, speed test and ping optimizer aren't working, speedboost works sporadically and sometimes drops other connections on random devices in the house when it senses game traffic, moderate NAT, high CPU usage, and steady ping had to be disabled for my geofilter to work properly. 
I'm a tinkerer at heart so I've already done multiple factory resets, split wifi networks, tested wifi channels individually, congestion on with multiple settings, congestion completely off, speed boost with manually configured settings, speedboost with auto config, speedboost off, steady ping with a ping 10ms higher than my typical ping to my nearest server, uPnP on, uPnP off with ports forwarded, IPV6 on, IPV6 off, changing DNS to Google servers, changing router IP to 10.0.0.1, etc. Turned off everything that's not in my XR1000 config and set it up exactly like my XR1000 and it just didnt work well at all. I spent 5hrs tinkering yesterday to no avail. I was never able to get the big 3. Consistent speeds, consistent ping, and strong wifi performance all at the same time. CM1000 router with 500d/20u from Spectrum. Swapped back over to the XR1000 last night and everything is back to how I'm used to. 
I'm holding out for the next FW update with high hopes. On .23 now but it's in the box til the next update is available. Caused too much grief in my home to reconnect and get logs and such. If I had set up remote I'd just SSH into it to prevent having to disconnect from my internet since I dont have a 2nd PC/laptop or 2nd NIC to prevent that. 

XR1000 is literally sitting on the couch. The R3 feels like a downgrade. Speeds are worse. Wifi isnt reaching my entire house anymore. F on bufferbloat and I cant tune below 50% to troubleshoot further. Gaming is riddled with packet bursts and latency variation although I'm still connecting to the same servers. Looking like a $200 paperweight atm.

Hi, so I just recently got my R3 shipped out and after setting it up it's underperforming in pretty much every aspect. Hoping someone who has run into any of the same issues maybe has some insight into if I've setup something incorrectly or if there's anything they've done in general that helps. For reference I followed Low Ping King's setup video for the R3 for my initial setup (Also used his bufferbloat video). Should mention that I didn't setup steady ping and didn't setup any of the geofiltering as the game I play already kind of has stuff in game that covers that. I mainly focused on setting up SmartBOOST for my Xbox and tinkered with congestion control. Also the main game I play is NHL 24. 
For some background I was using an XR500 before this, it had its own issues and didn't quite net the results I was looking for, BUT it did at least noticeably improve performance in comparison to what I'd see if I was using my ISP provided router, both in terms of in game feel and what I'd see on a bufferbloat test. My average active download and upload varied in terms of the numbers, but I'd essentially always get an A as my score; my main concern was that I would get really high spikes on my download and of course the in game feel was super inconsistent, being great one day and awful the next.
Testing with the R3 I was seeing worse results than I would even see on my ISP router. My bufferbloat scores are all over the place, they range from a B to a D, getting even higher spikes many times than I'd see on my XR500. The results in general while never being good vary greatly in how bad they are without any consistency so its hard to say just how bad it is. I even tried playing a game just to see how it feels and yeah it didn't feel great in game either, also my in game ping increased by 10 ms (once again I didn't even setup steady ping so that can't be it).
Here's a list of weird things I noticed with the R3:
           - Speeds from ISP are lower, not significantly, but I noticed I'm getting like 600 - 750 up and down on a regular speed test online (made sure to keep speed test bypass on as well for this). The speed test within duma OS seems to fair better, with my speeds being in the 800s for my download and upload, sometimes low 900s if I test enough times. For comparison on my other router I'd usually see something like 945 up and down. 
           - Active upload is all over the place in testing, I've seen a couple tests where its low, but for the most part it'll go from +150 or something then drop down a bit. On my XR500 my                        upload active was actually pretty low, like 15 ms or lower, some tests it might be in the 20's.
           - On my XR500 my unloaded ping was super low, like 2 - 3 ms always. With the R3 its varies from 4 ms - 8ms. Nothing significant but it was a bit weird and felt it was worth noting. 
           - From the 2 games of NHL I tried, as mentioned they felt pretty bad, what I can say at least is that the lag was almost more consistent on the R3 if that makes sense? on my XR500 if I was lagging it wasn't as bad as the R3 in terms of the button delay or how heavy the game felt but it was kind of inconsistent and all over the place which made the lag harder to predict and get used to playing on.
 
Anyway sorry if that was long, but if anyone has any insights please do provide. I don't have any screenshots of anything right now but can provide some if needed. I do appreciate that the Netduma staff seems to be pretty active in trying to help people resolve issues. Just wish the return window was longer than 14 days as I feel I need to see SOMETHING within this short window to avoid returning it.