GuitarPanda

Ahh, this was made from open source projects all over GitHub, but I can remove the post or you can, that makes sense on other routers not doing it then.

Long time user, just reiterating I sincerely hope the team is working towards something unique that actually works. (Without slowly only fixing bugs for years) Almost three years now? It's been a long time since any major updates regarding leading edge features. I see you guys have slowly fixed bugs over time for the r3, so that's good. With AI assistance and "vibe coding" being so accessible now ,with a working open source firmware, (open wrt) and a support device, a lot can be done now with persistence by almost anyone with the right amount of patience. I was able to replicate what I remembered liking from netduma and added synthetic/steady ping for cod mostly, and was able to turn ping assist into my most used geo filter usage. I can filter lobbies in mw4 by either less than or more than ping wise. All in about 3 hours. (Tested and working) The qos options available on open wrt already are more customizable and powerful than what duma offers. If I can do this, than someone with actual experience could make something great within a short amount of time and overshadow netduma immediately. So I ask, are you guys taking reasonable timelines seriously now? Or will it be like how it is now forever? I don't consider more than a year of unique powerful features teased without execution reasonable. And the world is changing fast. I hope y'all aren't simply resting on your laurels.

Thanks Fraser, it wasn't so much of a collaboration I suppose, just a wave from two new companies to each other. There was someone from the duma side who made a post a long long time ago anyway on their forums. I don't doubt they're working hard, or attempting to be innovative. All im saying is, it would be great to have a team dedicated to locking down the fundamentals of the router that already exist. I certainly wouldn't rely on an r3 currently to handle my home network. It's just not reliable enough for a household of multiple users. That's what I mean when I want the router fundamentals to be solid first, then continue innovating on top of a solid foundation. From looking at the forums over the years, the fundamentals have always had some issues, and I just hope the team will take a different approach. I bet if you had a poll, less than 50 percent of your users use the r3/r2 as their main hub and just use it to piggyback off an existing router to geo filter their desired devices.

I've been using the netduma r1 since it's inception and grudgingly bought the r2 and r3. I actually got word of the r1 back on the old xim 3 forums as the two companies attempted to collaborate for a brief moment. I'd like to see more involvement to the general community from actual devs like there used to be. The developer(s) themselves used to actually interact with the community and provide feedback on what was going on behind the scenes and even helped support individual users directly. (Mostly during the r1 era) Fraser does an excellent job as community support, but it's not enough in my opinion. The community needs to hear from the people actively developing as well like it used to be. I understand the company has grown, and yet it is still small, but it's missing that element of community that thrived in the past. I think it's been completely detrimental to the company by not addressing well known bugs and seemingly stringing a carrot along that all will be fixed with an upcoming update (with new features( I'd love to see a a change in this direction with some resources being directed towards taking out known bugs and making the router function soundly while waiting for additional features. This has always been my main gripe with netduma. There has never been a 100 percent solid build. There's always a few things that are broken. I heard of you guys originally from the Xim forums. They also have a small team (5-7 people) and have also grown well beyond their roots. The difference with the xim team is they would never let well known bugs fester between releases. Anything that came up was addressed immediately while other major features were being developed. On top of that, the main developer himself still responds to threads on a weekly basis. I want this same dedication from netduma, like there used to be. Allocate some resources to squash out problems with current builds, and please let us hear from more than just fraser. Bring back trust and community.