wesleyrpg Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 hi there, currently own a Nighthawk R9000 which is in need of some love, it doesn't seem to get much attention from Netgear anymore, they have moved on to bigger and better projects. any chance of a free/paid upgrade to dumaOS seeing the XR700 and R9000 are Siamese twins separated at birth! i'm sure it wouldn't take much code if any at all to get up and running! Any opinions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Killhippie Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 38 minutes ago, wesleyrpg said: hi there, currently own a Nighthawk R9000 which is in need of some love, it doesn't seem to get much attention from Netgear anymore, they have moved on to bigger and better projects. any chance of a free/paid upgrade to dumaOS seeing the XR700 and R9000 are Siamese twins separated at birth! i'm sure it wouldn't take much code if any at all to get up and running! Any opinions? Its been done, its called the XR700 which isn't a twin it is the R9000 in a new shell with DumaOS added, and Netgear wont give you a freebie update for the R9000. You would need to buy a XR700. I would wait to see what comes this year with regards to AX routers, then wait until they are based on a full released of Wi-Fi 6, not a draft version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Admin Posted January 2, 2019 Administrators Share Posted January 2, 2019 Hi Wesley and welcome to the forum! NETGEAR decide which of their routers DumaOS will be available on, so you can ask them directly: https://twitter.com/NETGEARgaming but they will probably just link you to the Nighthawk Pro Gaming page with the XR500 and XR700 models! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Killhippie Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 19 hours ago, Netduma Admin said: Hi Wesley and welcome to the forum! NETGEAR decide which of their routers DumaOS will be available on, so you can ask them directly: https://twitter.com/NETGEARgaming but they will probably just link you to the Nighthawk Pro Gaming page with the XR500 and XR700 models! The R9000 is a XR700 same router new plastic casing and DumaOS added, the PCB is the same as is the specs. So the user has to buy a XR700. Netgear are re-using old hardware for these routers, which is fair enough as the hardware is in good enough but getting old. Netgear just abandoned the R9000 pretty much as it was not a big seller and released without even QoS, the R7800 (XR500) was a much better router for price compared with the heavy weight CPU in the R9000 and had better Wi-Fi over 5Ghz too. Netgear don't always utilise the full potential of their CPU's in their code. The R7800 was under-clocked to 1.4Ghz when Netgear published its GPL for that router in January 2016, Voxel a well known third party firmware writer on smallnetbuilder.com and myopenrouter re-worked Netgears code to make it run at 1.7Ghz, as well as update all the GPL packages that Netgear never update, sadly the XR500 seems to have suffered the same fate as its code is old even OpenSSL is from December 2017. It's a shame you guys cant contact Voxel, sling him a XR500 and get him alongside you guys to release third party firmware which is still Netgear based but with better security and the code brought up to date as much as he can with each release, the router will perform at its peak and not have things like miniupnd 1.0 from 13 years ago that's just been patched in binary still being used to this day in all Netgear routers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG__DOG Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 8 hours ago, Killhippie said: Its been done, its called the XR700 which isn't a twin it is the R9000 in a new shell with DumaOS added, and Netgear wont give you a freebie update for the R9000. You would need to buy a XR700. I would wait to see what comes this year with regards to AX routers, then wait until they are based on a full released of Wi-Fi 6, not a draft version. Asus have just launched an AX model! https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-RT-AX88U-Wireless-AX6000-Gigabit-AiProtection/dp/B07JHFWZKN/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1546505922&sr=8-8&keywords=asus+router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Killhippie Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 40 minutes ago, BIG__DOG said: Asus have just launched an AX model! https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-RT-AX88U-Wireless-AX6000-Gigabit-AiProtection/dp/B07JHFWZKN/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1546505922&sr=8-8&keywords=asus+router Its way to early for AX routers really, but AX is being pushed harder with WPA3 than AC was, BIG__DOG its the next big step in Wi-Fi standards and wallet openers after all Although I would stay well clear of early units until the AX is ratified in November this year. Then some features may/may not work with current silicon, much like the wave 2 stuff with 802ac. Also until you get any AX clients there really is no point as it does not benefit older Wi-Fi clients enough for the outlay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG__DOG Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 Just now, Killhippie said: Its way to early for AX routers really, but AX is being pushed harder with WPA3 than AC was, BIG__DOG its the next big step in Wi-Fi standards and wallet openers after all Although I would stay well clear of early units until the AX is ratified in November this year. Then some features may/may not work with current silicon, much like the wave 2 stuff with 802ac. Also until you get any AX clients there really is no point as it does not benefit older Wi-Fi clients enough for the outlay it is pure gimmickry (if there is such a word ). I can't see the need for it in most peoples households anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Killhippie Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 36 minutes ago, BIG__DOG said: it is pure gimmickry (if there is such a word ). I can't see the need for it in most peoples households anyway. AX routers will be much more efficient with airtime than AC routers and with crowded airways even 2.4Ghz gets a boost, but its to early, these devices are based on draft 3 the final draft is November. AC took 7 drafts! It will become the norm, but right now the R7800 and XR500 both can utilise HT160 which AX does, but we dont need to upgrade to have that feature. Also for most you cant use that in crowded areas anyway. Heres a good read up of what to expect and why not to buy now. https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/33209-5-things-to-know-before-you-buy-a-draft-11ax-router Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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