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Those were the days lol

People are just oblivious too it man. Its why it's marketed as, better ping, better gaming experience etc etc. The only thing dumaos has going for it is geo filter. The software itself is poorly coded and poorly managed. The only time I could say the software worked was back with the r1 prior to dumaos. The router is aimed at the non technical hence the forums filled with people asking basic questions.

the fact is these issues should of been picked up in testing. from what ive heard they were from testers but reports fell on deaf ears. youd be dreaming if this issue will be fixed within a month let alone a week. id imgaine returns are coming back to them as the router does the exact opposite of what it supposed too lol. good luck with the wait and just remember you paid to be a beta tester for this product when others got it for free.

Most processes are single core dependent, faster, more advanced cores would help this issue.

Look at the specs and history of how they handle updates etc. Easy return if you were suckered in. Yeah good idea, asus are miles ahead in terms of router reliability and performance also with updates. Geo filter not needed here in Australia as we only have 1 location for all dedicated game servers. They all give me 2ms

100% hfc. Jeez 😂

Buy the asus. Much better hardware, you want stable ping? Enable adaptive QoS set limits and gaming as #1. Still want geo filter? Buy cheap dumaos enabled router (we got em in Australia, telstra modem for $20) and use it lan only. Dunno why people are surprised at how poor the products are at high prices. Go asus, you won't look back

That's what happens when they drop lower tier hardware inside. You should never buy these routers for their wifi/networking. Only the dumaos features. It was a shame that the r3 wasn't a high end router, could of been a banger

Lan to lan ethernet, change r2 ip to something outside of r3 dhcp range and disable dhcp on the r2

Yeah the soc uses in the r3 is more entry level compared to the offerings from asus. I'm hanging out for the gt-be98 myself.

Nice thanks for the info. So it's a cortex a7 based soc. How does it handle gig wan? Guessing the soc also includes the wifi stuff rather than being separate like in other routers.

Broadcom is the leader and i wouldn't expect anything else for the asking price. But I bet you it's a mediatek soc, doubts if it's qualcomm.

A few questions, what soc you guys using in this router? Also does the wifi support 160mhz width? Would love some details about the soc for sure. 256mb ram is a very big let-down. 1gb minimum should of been included.

Last time I tried the og firmware worked for party chat.

Thank you, I'm keen to get back to using my r1 once this issues is laid to rest.

So after all this time and the xbox party chat is still broken.... dude seriously I gave up ages ago and went asus and couldn't be happier myself. Surely people who can't use the xbox party chat be given a decent discount on an r2 or something.

Thats link speed. 300 is below average. My phones and laptop get a link speed of 585/650/702 mbps when im literally 10 cm from the device. My rsp router with no external antennas gets me a link speed of 702mbps and sometimes 1000mbps through 2 walls. That's a 1733 router. Im going to get netduma to look into why I only have access to 4 bans for 5ghz when selecting Australia in the setup for location. Should have a bunch more channels to choose from. The drivers are probably pre mature for the wifi hence the poor performance I think they know that already though.

Thanks for the reply, ok hopefully there's a couple updates soon. Have only 2 neighbouring wifi access points im picking up. My area has alot of older people so there's minimal interference. Direct line of sight to the r2 at 2 meters on 80 mhz at channel 36 nets a link speed of 300 mbps. I've seen it link up at 650 and 700 a couple times. Also im in Australia and there seems that the 5ghz bands only has 36 40 44 and 48. Unless im missing something?

Constant low speeds and range.

Dude the wifi is horrendous, both bands drop link speeds as low as 20 and 50 mbps. Doesn't matter what channel I set them too, they run on the 2.4ghz band. I've plugged in my old router and the link speed is back to 144mbps. Is the antennas that bad or is it the chip inside? Could be the heat because this thing is hot on the underside even lifted 20cm of my TV unit. Could we get a temperature graph maybe in an update. That's something that would be a welcomed addition.

The wifi is absolutely garbage. I play on lan and have to have my 2nd rsp router as an ap which has twice the reach without antennas. Where did you source the antennas from. They are like $2 ebay jobs😳😳 im at half signal strength at 5 meters away from the router. My security gear barely gets a signal from it. Im severely thinking about returning this as its unacceptable for a $250 aud router.

The r2 has a bug with lan asking for dhcp lease from modem instead of wan. I can reboot and get this everytime. Best thing is leave the wan cable unplugged while you reboot until netduma fix this.

The current .56 build for xr500 is more stable currently. Wouldn't worry to much.

Much less capable hardware unfortunately. Should have atleast 2x ram and flash. I guess that due to money and so on you chose mediatek over broadcom? Looks good and the positive is direct and faster updates.

Nope still waiting. Signed up instantly pretty much as it went live. Current beta for r1 is ok though I need better wifi.