No problems as such, but...

[Arrold]

Netduma R3 bought in the last week. Tried FW 4.0.16/20/23 at various points.

Functionally, on my home network, I don't really have a problem as such, if you know what I mean. We're all able to browse (2 adults, 2 kids, I work from home in IT 5 days a week), watch high quality video streams, play games, the Geo-Filter is working in WZ for my PS5 etc, but the download speeds being shown on router are quite a bit off true speed and I've noticed something else that doesn't seem to work as expected.

Previous setups:
Asus RT-AX92U handling PPPoE internet, DHCP and the main Router in an AIMesh network. 3 AIMesh nodes, 1 wired (outdoor grade Cat 6 cable up the front of my house), 2 wireless. There is also a 2nd cable run up the house that allows me to have my Linux desktop plugged directly into the primary router, so I can test speeds from this and through the Asus network wired to my work macbook.
I was previously getting around 920Mbps down and 110Mbps up, from anything wired.

When I ordered the Netduma R3, as a test I put the ISP router (a TP-Link thing) in to handle the PPPoE on a 192.168.1.0/24 network, then had the main Asus router picking up an IP from that and serving the house on a different network 192.168.48.0/22. I would have turned the wifi off on the TP-Link to prevent channel clashes but it didn't seem to have that feature and it didn't seem to cause a problem for the few days this was in place, no noticable drop in speeds, no complaints from the family, test of potential setup for the Netduma successful.

Current setup:
The Netduma arrived a couple of days later, by then I've read some more on the forums etc and realised the benefit of having this run network/DHCP so that's what I've done, it now handles the PPPoE, DHCP, there is only one private network, wifi is turned off. I'm able to run the main AIMesh node in wired AP mode and still have it as the main thing in an AIMesh network, I llose some features on the Asus but that's to be expected, all good so far.

Adblocker has been off since the start, I may turn that back on again when I think things are stable.
Right now, with SmartBOOST enabled, from the Linux PC, speedtest shows 390 down, 95 up
With SmartBOOST disabled, 690 down, 100 up
The speedtest on the Netduma router itself, around 550 down, 110 up, this fluctuates a bit, I've had it read 568 down but its generally around that area. I've left it for 3 or 4 days where the ONT device has remained powered on the whole time, done multiple speed tests in that time, the results haven't changed much.

So, issue #1: Knowing my true speeds, should I manually put these in as my speeds, or could this have a detrimental effect and I should let the speed test from DumaOS set these? Do you think the speedtest will one day show the true speeds of my connection?

#2 At one point, I think mostly with FW 4.0.20, if I set either of these settings in Ping Optimiser, "Run Full Test" and/or "Ping optimiser Mode > Expert", the Ping Optimiser tool would fail to run. I currently have 4.0.23 running and have "Run Full Test" enabled, and pretty sure it's allowed me to Optimise. I can't enable Expert mode to test right now cos the boy's on Minecraft.

As I said, I wouldn't say this was urgent, my home network is functioning and the tools I need to use are working, it's just a bit concerning that the other 2 setups I've had recently, admittedly with zero QoS enabled on either, show greater speeds on speedtests.

[Netduma Fraser]

Just to clarify, the R3 is handling PPPoE now? If so that's likely why the speeds are a little lower, we'll boost that if we can but you should see higher speeds for the moment with DHCP.

1. You should set what the router is actually receiving really so QoS can work optimally.
2. We are aware Ping Optimizer/Speed Test isn't 100% reliable at the moment and it's something the team are working on. Those features can still work, it just may not be every time. Best to adjust Congestion Control manually for the moment from Ping Optimizer > Advanced.

[Arrold]

You've got it, ok, I'll set the speeds and see how it goes, thank you

[Arrold]

After setting true speeds in Speed Test > Advanced, download speed from a wired speedtest is up to 760 with SmartBOOST enabled so looking good, this is with speed tests bypass enabled.

Not really sure what's meant by adjusting Congestion Control manually, I don't think it matters though as the network is functioning well.

I was messing with things last night when everyone else was in bed and found that changes under Ping Optimiser > Advanced didn't seem to reflect on the UI until I rebooted the system, I was connecting from the app on an Android tablet, if that makes a difference.

I haven't had any laggy games of Warzone, it mostly matches in my drawn polygon and the lobbies have felt ok so pleased about that, but once last night it matched a server with a 60+ ms ping and that's the one game I had Chinese cheat sellers in, I couldn't get the UI to show where I was connected to.

This wasn't intentional but having wifi off on the Netduma means everything is effectively wired as far as it sees things, which means I don't lose connection to anything when a Ping is being Optimised, nice little bonus.

[Netduma Fraser]

That's great to hear! You shouldn't need to reboot for it to apply, was it set to Always? Was speed test bypass enabled?

[Arrold]

I go into Ping Optimiser > Advanced, it's set to Auto (Recommended) right now, I change it to Always On, drop out of the settings menu, go back in to it and it looks like it's on Auto again. I just tested this from desktop Browser and it did the same thing, but maybe 20-30 seconds later I go into the same menu and the change has now reflected, seems there's just a delay there

[Netduma Fraser]

Ah yes, I think it's about 10 seconds, if you change it, wait 10 seconds, go in then back it should be the same