Proud R3 Owner Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I was reading a post @Netduma Frasermade in early access about not being a hardware company and mentioning latest in tech and limited funding. If you had just a base router with no Wi-Fi (AP's needed) or RGB lighting, you could potentially free up some funds for things like more RAM in the unit that would greatly increase the performance and give the devs a little more headroom for additional features. Just a thought, I think most R3 users probably don't even use the Wi-Fi on the R3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted February 7 Administrators Share Posted February 7 On 2/7/2025 at 7:41 PM, Proud R3 Owner said: I was reading a post @Netduma Frasermade in early access about not being a hardware company and mentioning latest in tech and limited funding. If you had just a base router with no Wi-Fi (AP's needed) or RGB lighting, you could potentially free up some funds for things like more RAM in the unit that would greatly increase the performance and give the devs a little more headroom for additional features. Just a thought, I think most R3 users probably don't even use the Wi-Fi on the R3. Expand We generally try to aim for around the same price point each time and have enough leeway to provide a significant initial discount to those who are wanting to upgrade from the previous gen. While I understand your point about RGB for example, it's not that much extra compared to the jump to WiFi 7 from WiFi 6. At the time when making the decision this was still fairly new, not widely adopted and quite expensive. This would have put the router out of the price bracket most of our customers are accustomed to and at the time not something that was a necessity. The RAM is enough for the router/software and this isn't really a limiting factor. We could of course put more in just for the sake of it but it's not necessarily something you'd see a huge benefit from like you would with a PC. Each aspect is thought about a lot, in terms of what the software requires, the cost, the cost vs benefit etc. All I was saying really is we're unlikely to be the ones that bring out the bleeding edge in router hardware as soon as it is available e.g. one of the first WiFi 8 routers etc. It's not to say that each iteration wouldn't be better hardware wise than the last because it would be. This could all change as well, just because it's what we have done doesn't necessarily mean it'll always follow that formula. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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