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I played with R1 since  1 year or more.

1 month ago i unplugged the Netduma after having some network issues and forgot about it.

 

My R1 was perfectly configured but so far beside the geo filtering, i start to think that there is little difference in games with or without it and start to think that it is kind of a placebo effect.

 

I'm not putting down the device but i somehow try to point out the lack of visualisation for each flow that would really show how their specific jitter/latency is made better etc..

 

it would be nice to have :

- a real time visualisation of each queue

- what flow (IP pairs ) are using them aka IP adresses not just obscur hashes..

- map IP to friend ID if needed. (bad guys don't need a netduma to get people IP and ddos them..) 

- granular bandwidth control per queue.

 

right now it is too much of a black box and nothing i can achieve myself  with way more visibility with the following tools :

 

- a linux box with 2 NIC.

- queuing reconfigured for codel

- tc qdisc

- iptable and xt_geoip module.

 

right now my box will stay unplugged , i will give it a try when dumaOS v2 is release but i don't feel i need it anymore.

and an OS update every 6-8 month is too long and this make the product lose traction too fast.

 
 

 

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I played with R1 since  1 year or more.

1 month ago i unplugged the Netduma after having some network issues and forgot about it.

 

My R1 was perfectly configured but so far beside the geo filtering, i start to think that there is little difference in games with or without it and start to think that it is kind of a placebo effect.

 

I'm not putting down the device but i somehow try to point out the lack of visualisation for each flow that would really show how their specific jitter/latency is made better etc..

 

it would be nice to have :

- a real time visualisation of each queue

- what flow (IP pairs ) are using them aka IP adresses not just obscur hashes..

- map IP to friend ID if needed. (bad guys don't need a netduma to get people IP and ddos them..) 

- granular bandwidth control per queue.

 

right now it is too much of a black box and nothing i can achieve myself  with way more visibility with the following tools :

 

- a linux box with 2 NIC.

- queuing reconfigured for codel

- tc qdisc

- iptable and xt_geoip module.

 

right now my box will stay unplugged , i will give it a try when dumaOS v2 is release but i don't feel i need it anymore.

and an OS update every 6-8 month is too long and this make the product lose traction too fast.

 

Geo filter for me has provided a lot of really good game plays that I would have seen a lot less of. That is after doing many many experiments.

 

Geo filter aside, I also learned that throttling the connection was huge in regards to the stability of my connection. Without it on, If I go to www.dslreports.com and my bufferbloat is like a "D" but it throttled correctly with duma I get an "A+" every single time. There are still pings and lag so it doesn't make the experience perfect, as if that is possible with "COD", but it has made it quite a bit better. I also had my settings off and wrong for a majority of the time but recently I fixed them and it seems to have helped tremendously. Not in every game, I am still subject to other 3 bar or less players causing some issues in games but my experience is so much better now.

 

Using the Netduma for me has been a game within a game but I am thankful I purchased it if for no other reason the ability to troubleshoot. I have even noticed some recent trends and when I can expect a bad connection depending on a number of different factors. Still testing those theories out but it seems to have a certain consistency to it.

 

Keep in mind, I am on cable so I might have a naturally more unstable connection than many others so I imagine it is possible that I could have better results with it but that is likely because my connections without it are inferior to others so if that is the case I was already put at a disadvantage.

 

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I played with R1 since  1 year or more.

1 month ago i unplugged the Netduma after having some network issues and forgot about it.

 

My R1 was perfectly configured but so far beside the geo filtering, i start to think that there is little difference in games with or without it and start to think that it is kind of a placebo effect.

 

I'm not putting down the device but i somehow try to point out the lack of visualisation for each flow that would really show how their specific jitter/latency is made better etc..

 

it would be nice to have :

- a real time visualisation of each queue

- what flow (IP pairs ) are using them aka IP adresses not just obscur hashes..

- map IP to friend ID if needed. (bad guys don't need a netduma to get people IP and ddos them..) 

- granular bandwidth control per queue.

 

right now it is too much of a black box and nothing i can achieve myself  with way more visibility with the following tools :

 

- a linux box with 2 NIC.

- queuing reconfigured for codel

- tc qdisc

- iptable and xt_geoip module.

 

right now my box will stay unplugged , i will give it a try when dumaOS v2 is release but i don't feel i need it anymore.

and an OS update every 6-8 month is too long and this make the product lose traction too fast.

 

If you did not notice a difference then I would say you probably did not have it setup correctly. 

 

Good points, however the router was made for people to be able to easily use it. Take a look at other router interfaces, someone who has never seen one before will have no idea what to do. Making a router that encompasses all those points from the get go would be totally confusing for people and add unnecessary information that doesn't actually help solve a problem. More refined bandwidth control will be introduced. Just because people don't need a duma to get peoples IP and DDoS them doesn't mean we should make it easier for them, especially given locations are shown on a map.

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