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Should I buy the XR500?
It’s currently on sale for $250 at bestbuy. I currently have a R7000. My current speeds are 100Mbps down and 10mbps up. I’m planning on upgrading to the 400Mbps down package. I game a lot, so do my siblings. Both my parents watch movies/tv shows throughout the evening. My house is about average size so the R7000 is able to reach most areas with its 2.4GHz network. What really urges me to buy is that it has DumaOS and it’s designed to hard-core gaming. Nothing compares to DumaOS, I’ve tried Merlin, Tomato, DD-WRT. The specs also amazes me. Should I buy this router?
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I can only give you my perspective. Had mine a little over 1.5 years. Hardware failed. 1 year for a $250 router is absurd. Unfortunately that is standard. I decided to go with a dual setup. Ubiquiti edgerouter X and Ubiquiti WAP. More freedom of control and the ability to go a lot deeper into the configs if you choose. Little less in price then the XR500 and if 1 goes, you just replace that. Not everything. Just my preference though. Good luck.
- No. Avoid the xr500 like the plague. Look through these forums. It’s had tons of issues and under performs. On paper, it should be great, in practice, not so much
I work for Netduma and I can tell you that in 2020 we're going to be updating DumaOS in a big way. There are going to be many new features released, with even more in the pipeline. No other router operating system is going to provide as many post-purchase updates as ours.
The existing features are great too, Geo-Filter is something you won't see anywhere else, and we have a very robust QoS feature.
Netduma provides support for any DumaOS product free of charge, both here and on our community forums.
Check out the reviews on Amazon or Best Buy. The reviews are overwhelmingly positive. When you come to the support forums you only see a small slice of our userbase, the ones that are having issues. The silent majority are having no issues, and we are actively working to fix all of the problems people bring up on this forum.
I’ll add my XR500 went faulty but I found Netgear pretty good when I required an exchange but it’s Duma that kind of lets it down a little. It’s buggy with known issues and slow updates which is a shame as it has great potential. Hardware wise this is based on an old Netgear router the D7800 with a few added bits. It’s knocking on a bit and some feel the Wi-fi coverage was better on this D7800 than the XR500. I like the simple to use interface on Duma and it’s not hard to work out what it’s all about it’s just let down with the bugs. If and when milestone 3 appears and if they get it right it might be a good little router for gaming but we will have to wait and see.
- What specific Netduma bugs are you experiencing? I can make a note of any we are not aware of or help you resolve ones we are if possible.
