Murdoch Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I was very excited to hear about this product and I have been browsing the forum and wiki for info, however I have two questions to ask. I am not the most tech savvy guy so excuse my noob questions. First can I keep my existing router from my ISP to power all of my wifi gadgets and just wire the netduma to power my playstation 4 only? Secondly can I set up and use the geofilter/ping features of the R1's software from an iPad? I do have a laptop but would rather not use it do to my impatience for its lack of speed. I am buying this router for COD advanced warfare. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elikenui Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 1. You can use your existing router for it's wifi, but you'll lose the benefits of the R1's congestion control and anti-flood. If there's not a lot of wifi traffic in your house while you're gaming, it may not be a big issue. The R1 does have a very good wifi antenna, it's 2.4 only, not 5ghz, but the range is really good. 2. You can use the browser from your tablets or even the browser in the xbox one if you wanted to. It's harder to get settings as exact as I like with the touchscreen vs a mouse but it works. 3. This router will help with COD AW as far as giving you as good a ping as your location allows but it will not fix problems that are inherent in the game itself. Many people still find AW inconsistent and laggy even with pings below 30ms, despite being on dedicated servers. Users have reported very good results with all other COD's though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagsta69 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 As above, The router and software are fantastic but I am afraid it is still hit and miss on AW, I have just finished a mixed few games. All lobbies on UK server and I am in the UK, 3 games tdm ok but not fantastic then one amazing game of dom calling in all 3 score streaks about 5 times and finishing 3rd on leaderboard followed by 4 games of dom where the lag was so bad I might as well have been on the moon. on the same dedicated server. I should have just realised that the game wasn't working for me tonight and quit. I will add that this is not the norm, most of the time even on AW the game plays great with the R1 but I do feel honest appraisals are better than sugar coated ones. Its more the game that is badly coded etc than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdoch Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thanks for your honest review for cod aw. Anyone else have experience playing this game with the router please let me hear your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elikenui Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Really this router is amazing, there is nothing else on the market that does what it does. Best money I have spent on a gaming related purchase by far. AW with this router is still a lot better than without this router, but there's still stuff with AW's code that only Sledgehammer can change. It's probably a lot to do with their first title in the COD series and they have been more of a single player campaign type studio and not online mutiplayer focused. Should be fine once Treyarch's title this year comes out as their previous games have played well with this router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Netduma_Iain Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Hi Murdoch, Thanks for the responses guys, Elikenui answered your quantitative questions accurately so I would only echo what he said. The goal of the R1 is strictly to minimise ping that should in turn improve your game play greatly BUT we do NOT diagnose game play, only ping. However it is common knowledge that ping is king. There are other factors involved for sure: other players qos, servers tick rate, team-mates/enemies skill level and much more. So will you get that perfect no lag game every-time? No, But you will have all the tools to optimise your connection. Thanks for the consideration, I'll step out of this conversation now unless you have any technical questions you'd like to ask me. Cheers! PS if you're interested in how to optimise the connection with respect to ping I'd highly recommend reading this article http://wiki.netduma.com/doku.php?id=dominate_lag_using_the_netduma_r1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagsta69 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Oh and just to add I used to get maybe one merciless medal per prestige befor the Duma, last one I got 6 including 25-3 with a 20 kill streak and a few other cracking games, it does make the experience of playing aw much better overall but I you do occasionally get a bad run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOrtiz Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Just my opinion.. I have purchased many routers in my time playing video to find the best out there.Unfortunately... the way they are designing these routers is for home use. Even if you call your isp or the router MFG, the best that they can do to help is put your router in DMZ mode. Netduma support is incredible because the people here understand gaming and all the BS that comes along with it. They are constantly updating with new updates, and supporting there product to also work in a home environment. Will it eliminate bad in-game net coding (Like COD) not really. But it will get you into better matches so overall you will be able to enjoy the game better. I was frustrated at the beginning because their way is totally different learning curve than what we are use to in a router. But with some continued help from the guys in chat or the forum and especially Iain, I was able to find better less BS and now enjoy playing video games again. Just take a moment to look at other routers forums on how they handle lag or internet problems, all of it is "DMZ, port forward and bad Nat type". Then look at this forum, you'll find a whole bunch of other things related to helping you out to set up yours. Until gaming companies fix there net-code, For the money... I don't think there is anything better than this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thanks for your honest review for cod aw. Anyone else have experience playing this game with the router please let me hear your thoughts. Hey Murdoch - Loved your namesake on the old A-Team. :-) I'm probably one of the only Black Ops and Black Ops 2 "regular", as in I play them every week at some point, players here right now. though I have seen some posts about those titles from others, so there's hope. Hands down - The best money I have spent on "something to help me play better". I'll be honest, I hadn't played FPS games in a "competitive" environment like online play in quite a few years. My first ever multi-player game and map of the CoD series was Yemen on Black Ops 2. I had been out of gaming for a few years and some "friends=bastards who wanted to torture me" wanted to get on game every night. Black Ops 2 was the title at the time, so I bought it and joined up. My first MP game I dropped in with the game about 3 minutes old. I went 0-7, got absolutely destroyed in seven straight gunfights, and rage quit the game. LOL I went on to view about 1,000 videos on YT, trying to learn the maps, the spawns, the guns, the attachments, the friggin' perks..... It was a meta-game disaster! I had wireless everything, was playing on a big TV with the issues that causes vs a monitor and a litany of things that just made matters worse for me. I wish the router was available BEFORE I tried a bunch of other things! It has made the single, biggest, difference in my online play and the "play ability" of these older games. I am about to finish my review of the Net Duma from just before 2nd Prestige up through Master Prestige on Blops 2. My Score Per Minute has gone up close to 100 points. My K/D has gone up from about a 1.5 to about a 2.2 on about 31K kills and about 14K deaths. Do the games still shit on me? Absolutely. I still get Wanted bullets upon occasion, I still get freak spawned and shot in the back, I still get players connecting who are powering their online experience with a potato and a 9-volt battery. But all those issues are easily HALF, or less, of what they used to be when I was relying ONLY on CoD's match making abilities. For my money, this single piece of gear has made the biggest difference in QUALITY of gaming and QUALITY of my home life as a result of my gaming. Good luck if you choose to run without one. JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranium2001 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 You already know how I feel murdoch. Everyone else here has pretty much echoed that. The learning curve is a bit easier if you have any experience tinkering with routers. If you don't I can guarantee you will be helped. If not by me by one of the other fine people in this post, on this forum and one of the employees. I chit chat with some of these guys on twitter a bit too. Even netduma employees. I don't think there's another company out there that does that too much. I give them an 11 out of 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdoch Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks all for your honest opinions. I believe I will be making purchase tonight. I am counting on some help setting the router up when it arrives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Netduma Fraser Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks all for your honest opinions. I believe I will be making purchase tonight. I am counting on some help setting the router up when it arrives. Fantastic! Thanks so much for supporting us. Absolutely, when you get it feel free to make a thread for installation help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillinger Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks all for your honest opinions. I believe I will be making purchase tonight. I am counting on some help setting the router up when it arrives. I think you will be really glad you did once you become one of the Duma Enlightened. :-) Not to fear! I have seen so many posts here on the forum, of vastly technical stuff I don't understand, and I haven't seen anyone turned away, chided or clowned for asking questions. The responses are always top shelf, and most of time a Duma staffer will respond before one of the forum regulars. This will be money well spent! Good luck, JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdoch Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 Ordered. Thanks everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buds Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Good job, hope it arrives quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 The best gaming router In the world and if you have more than one person on the network the best router in the world because of the congestion control easily out shining any QOS.Have fun with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cranium2001 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Congratulations murdoch. You won't be sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Netduma_Iain Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks Murdoch and everyone else for the kind words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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