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I recently ran across Netduma and have been a lot of research on it. I am extremely interested in buying a router but I am not sure if it would be a fit for me. Intended use would be in a college dorm room since the college does have great internet but I am always lagging if I try to play a game online. Would this be a fix?

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Yes. They provide Wi-Fi throughout the dorms and 2 Ethernet ports in each room. I never use the Wi-Fi since I'm on the second floor and get 1bar connection. Other than that, I'm not sure what else you're asking for.

 

In that case the Netduma would work kinda ok. Things such as congestion control wouldn't really be affective because not all devices are connected through it. I'm also not sure if you could get an open NAT. You would be able to use the GeoFilter though which would eliminate and lag caused by connecting to foreign hosts.

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"For international orders, please return within 7 days of the date you receive your order. If you believe the item has a fault see the details below on returning faulty items.

The router must not have been powered up or connected to any other device in order to qualify for a full refund."

 

Since I live in the USA, if I were to test it and find it doesn't help I would not be entitled to a "full refund"?

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"For international orders, please return within 7 days of the date you receive your order. If you believe the item has a fault see the details below on returning faulty items.

The router must not have been powered up or connected to any other device in order to qualify for a full refund."

 

Since I live in the USA, if I were to test it and find it doesn't help I would not be entitled to a "full refund"?

 

Fraser or Luke would have to comment on that as I'm not sure. Going by what it says on there, it would suggest not :)

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I recently ran across Netduma and have been a lot of research on it. I am extremely interested in buying a router but I am not sure if it would be a fit for me. Intended use would be in a college dorm room since the college does have great internet but I am always lagging if I try to play a game online. Would this be a fix?

I would be careful using this in a dorm setting. I used to work IT at my college, we did not allow routers in any rooms because it completely messed up the services we needed to keep campus connected. We had sniffers that would instantly tell us if somebody hooked up a router in the room, then we would have to go take their router lol.

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Have you ran ping tests like ping plotter to see how bad local congestion is? because I am guessing there will be some serious jitter going on with that many sharing a connection.

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