XR500 Interface is "pretty", but how useful?

[lailateri75]

The graphical charts of the DumaOS on the Netgear XR500 are nice to look at, but some of them simply are not realistic when you consider a modern home. All the demos and examples show homes with 4-5 devices connected, so the interfaces are clean an easy to see.

But when you consider a modern home with multiple computers, phones, tablets, TV's, streaming devices, home automation, security cameras, sensors, IOT ... that graphical Network Map gets pretty hard to read. Device names are overlapping on each other making some of the device names impossible to read. Trying to find a device on your network by MAC address is an exercise in frustration with no search/find options in that graphical map. There should be a toggle to view the same info in a table format; additionally let me export the table in CSV.

Also help me understand the QOS.

Past routers I've simply given devices Highest, High, Normal type of settings. If my iPhone was set to highest priority speed test would always show me ~200Mbps speeds. (I know a phone doesn't need this speed, just using it as an example)

With DumaOS I am now allocating bandwidth to the device, but I only get 100% to work with. So if I give the phone 10Mbps, that is all I will ever get? ... even if nothing else on the home network is using my 1Gig Fiber connection? or does the allocation only kick in when there is network congestion?

Thanks for any insight you can offer.

[scrubosaurus]

14 minutes ago, lailateri75 said:

ly get 100% to work with. So if I give the phone 10Mbps, that is all I will ever get? ... even if nothing else on the home network is using my 1Gig Fiber connection? or does the allocation only kick in when there is network congestion?

Thanks for any insight you can offer.

not near mine now but there is an option to use the excess speed with other devices, something like that, so if u setup ur phone to use 10% but nothig else is using the remain, it will let u use more than 10%

[Netduma Fraser]

Hey, welcome to the forum!

Totally understand your point and regarding the charts etc we will have a Data History Rapp that will be more indepth.

If you upgrade to the XR500 3.0 beta found here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-DumaOS-3-0/bd-p/en-home-beta-npg-duma you will be able to download the device names/MAC addresses to a text file. Also there is an option to switch to table view, you should have that option available already - click the 3 line icon in the top left of the panel.

So as above, by default 'Share Excess' is enabled so if a device needs more than its' allocation and other devices aren't using all of theirs then in this example your phone could exceed its allocation by taking the excess unused bandwidth from other devices. If all devices were using their allocation then the phone would also be locked to its allocation.