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Developer Blog 1: The Future of DumaOS: Version 3.0
Last year we released our first major update for DumaOS, Milestone 1.3. You guys loved it, so we quickly got to work on the next milestone, packing it full of features to make your Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router even more powerful.
Instead of a milestone update, we will instead be releasing a new version, DumaOS 3.0, and it marks the biggest leap forward in our history. It will contain a huge amount of features never seen before on a router. Instead of just sending out each of the features piece by piece, we needed to wrap them all up into one giant release. We will explain why soon 😉 (but don't worry, there are no plans to do an EA!).
We know you guys will want to get your hands on 3.0 as soon as possible and we are working very hard to make this happen. But until we are sure, the release date is ‘to be confirmed’. But in the meantime, here is a teaser one of the many features coming to your router in 3.0: Data History.
With Data History you can see how much bandwidth you’ve used over time and drill-down to see which devices and/or applications are eating up all your data or find out how many hours you spent gaming over the weekend. If you are under a data cap, you can also see if you are nearing your monthly limit.
This is just a small glimpse into 3.0. We will be gradually revealing more features so keep an eye out for more developer blogs from us.
Big things are coming.
Thank you for your support.
The Netduma Team
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An auto forwarding function screen for multiple Consoles would be a game changer! Port settings get over lapped too easily in the UPnP screen resulting in a console getting kicked to moderate NAT or STRICT NAT. Then the user has to uncheck the Auto UPnP box ☑ to reset the ports numbers and restart the consoles. Having the this service would make it a new industry standard! Management and releasing frustrating NAT issues is what everyone is looking for. - IRONEAGLE777
Will the power / hardware of the R1 be maxed out & at its limits with all these updates? I only ask because I’ve seen concerns in the past with the current DumaOS & R1, possibly taxing it too much. Any talk of upgrading the hardware/router itself?
Thanks!
- raghavan We're certainly putting it through its paces yes but we won't do anything for the R1 version that will unnecessarily put strain on it to the point where it would affect your connection. We can't upgrade the R1 hardware specifically as we don't own the hardware. However, we released a successor to the R1 - the R2, which is more powerful, optimized for DumaOS 3.0 and owned by us.
I think a high percentage of people that spent big money on a gaming router has unlimited internet, hope us guy and gals are not spending to much time and resourses on things like that. lol I think you should stick to the selling points of the router, a better gamming experince.
We're expanding DumaOS beyond just gaming. We're trying to make the best router operating system around.
it would be nice if the gaming part was perfected before going off on any other type of stuff, I mean it is the nifgthawk GAMING router. just my opition .
Hey, any actual ETA on any of this because like everyone else on these support forums I'm really losing my patience with the XR500 router? The list of bugs and glitches is just unacceptable in a $300 piece networking equimpent, especially since there haven't been any timely firmware updates of any acutal substance at all.
I still can't use IPv6 without killing off the router's main QOS features. The USB print share still doesn't work at all on the latest Windows build. Fugly and sometimes broken UI. The Network Monitor is a joke and so is the Device Manager since neither of them are giving accurate readings at all. These are just a few things that I can think off the top of my head at the moment as I'm writing this and I can only imagine what surprises that other users are enduring.
XR500 is trully a gift that keeps on giving the longer you use it. At this point the product really seems like a half-baked abandonware that's constantly riding on top of empty promises. I don't know whether Netgear or Netduma is to blame here, but neither one of them will own up to the problems and provide a solid answer.
Data History? Seriously? For F's sake. Fix your product. Patch out the bugs so that we can actually use the damn router like it was originally intended. Unfortunately, I feel it's all just falling on deaf ears and these routers are abandoned like the rest of Netgear's consumer grade line of products.
- We're optimising the cloud for CoD at the moment and so we'll be able to release that automatically when ready - no need for an update. We can't give any estimations on deadlines as they're always subject to change and could cause disappointment. The 3.0 update includes reworking of existing features which in itself should resolve any current issues.
sounds good, tks.
If your having problems with the router, please contact NG support and let them know what your having problems with. Ask for an RMA.
https://www.netgear.com/mynetgear/registration/login.aspx
NG doesn't post when future FW updates for forthcoming.
OlegP wrote:Hey, any actual ETA on any of this because like everyone else on these support forums I'm really losing my patience with the XR500 router? The list of bugs and glitches is just unacceptable in a $300 piece networking equimpent, especially since there haven't been any timely firmware updates of any acutal substance at all.
I still can't use IPv6 without killing off the router's main QOS features. The USB print share still doesn't work at all on the latest Windows build. Fugly and sometimes broken UI. The Network Monitor is a joke and so is the Device Manager since neither of them are giving accurate readings at all. These are just a few things that I can think off the top of my head at the moment as I'm writing this and I can only imagine what surprises that other users are enduring.
XR500 is trully a gift that keeps on giving the longer you use it. At this point the product really seems like a half-baked abandonware that's constantly riding on top of empty promises. I don't know whether Netgear or Netduma is to blame here, but neither one of them will own up to the problems and provide a solid answer.
Data History? Seriously? For F's sake. Fix your product. Patch out the bugs so that we can actually use the damn router like it was originally intended. Unfortunately, I feel it's all just falling on deaf ears and these routers are abandoned like the rest of Netgear's consumer grade line of products.
100% agreement with OlegP
I've had the XR500 since it came out and the only meaningful Duma update I see is the ability to view my Network Map as a table vs the tree map ... which is a visual mess if you have many computers/phones/people/iot/smarthome devices. I've pursued both Duma forums and Netgear forums ... and there is a lot of finger pointing back and forth. It's not clear who owns the underlying router functions
This router might be good in a house 10-20 devices, but more than that and sometimes the visual interface makes everything more difficult.
- Lookup a device by MAC addresss? nope
- Export a device list? nope
- Sort by MAC address or IP? nope
- Updated device types? (camera, iot, SmartHome, switch/hub/extender ...) nope
- Device names that stay tied to MAC address? nope
- Devices that I have named, frequently return as "unnamed device"
- Usable logging? nope
- If "Marking a marked device" is a dev message not meant for me (the user), give me a checkbox to filter it out
- Seriously 90% of my logs are "Marking a marked device", should I have to export the file to excel and manually filter it out to figure out if I am getting DDOS/intrusion traffic?
- Ability to monitor OpenVPN connections to the router? nope
- Router doesnt show connected devices
- IP range is outside of DHCP, and non-configurable
- ...
- Some of the things you've mentioned are possible such as sort by MAC/IP and some will be possible in future updates. It's important to remember that we wanted to create an easy to use gaming router, things like logs do not affect gameplay performance at all. More niche/usual router functions like that can come later based on customer feedback which we listen to constantly.
- I wanna report two bugs tho.
In device manager sometimes it doesn't see my Console pop up as active on the landline itd be stuck on offline when I'm literally have it turned on over a wired connection!
Geo-Filter keep putting me on a date center that's not in my Geo Filter area. It sometimes go out of my "Filtered" Area an connect me to a server I dont wanna be one. Sense I'm literally an hour from seattle. Which is a big hub for gaming data servers its keeps rooting me to the ones in Oregon & Los Anglas when that's not in my Filter Area. Definitely something that needs to be fixed In this 3.0 update!
Added features I'd like is a force host mode. Where in curtain games that do Peer to Peer aka Call of Duty. Itd be awesome where I could tell my router to make me host the lobby everytime. So pretty much it start out as myself in the lobby aka that means imma host it. Than its connect players to my end instead of me being on there end.
Another feature I'd like is to be able to have a option to have geo Filter find me players close to my state like it search for players in Washington to my region in the country if you know what I mean by this. It crap that I keep getting players outside where there ping is like 60-100ms an there connect is so bad that my shots don't register on em because there internet sucks. Pretty much a feature itd find me players near me like in Filter mode but a Advanced Version of the Search Radius. That you can toggle.
Another great one is where I can set my Ping-Assist lower than 30. That would be a GAMECHANGER. Sense where I live I'm an hour from the biggest Game Server hub which is seattle! Please add this in 3.0 where i can set the ping assist Lower than 30ms! It's great to have it search me for 30ms games. But I like to go lower than 30.- The Geo-Filter does get you the closest server currently, you may be experiencing issues with mislocated servers but we'll be doing a cloud update soon to resolve this so you may find that improves then. The Device Manager issue we are aware of so that will be fixed. Not sure I understand the Geo-Filter issue, this may be Ping Assist connecting you to games outside your radius. You won't be able to force yourself to be host - this would also be considered cheating. You can only force the server you connect to not the players, you can't influence other peoples connections. You can set the Ping Assist to lower than 30 but depending on your location, base ping etc you may not get a game under this.
- How is force host cheating! Me always being the host of the games makes my ping lower. So I just dont know how its cheating when I'm making my latency even lower because I'm the host of the game!
Another thing Ping Assist doesn't work on PC for Modern Warfare. Just went to a lobby today an I have it set to 30ms with no fast search an i got into a lobby with 70ms with Filtered mode on. At a 311 Radius. Sense seattle is my closest server. That need a fix as well if that can be done with this update. I never use fast search unless I'm playing a old game like Advanced Warfare. I have it toggled off for Modern Warfare. So I wanted to notify you that. I know there's a COD server in Seattle which I'm a hour away from.
- Heloo great team of dumaOS!
Is there any possible date available for the launch
of dumaOS 3.0 ?- Hi Alewi, we don't have a date but we will be releasing some sneak peeks soon so keep an eye on our social media and forum.
I also have a bug to report which should be fixed with the new version, the router has issues building an internet connection after a restart or factory reset. It always takes at least 30 minutes until it pulls an IP. My IPS logged the connection and said that everything is fine. The IPS will send me a test router and I will try again. But I think either this router needs an RMA or there is a software issue.
Also since I have this router my NAS can no longer download apps. I forwarded the ports, the intersting thing is that I can access the NAS's data over the internet, it just can't access the app store.
But a fast release with big fixes would be appreciated. I don't really need new features until the router performs well.
- PodrÃa pasarme beta dumaos 3.0 para netgear xr300? Por favor estoy apunto en la beta pero no me llega para testear
