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XR1000 vs Rax200 for gaming
Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade my netgear x6 r800 router because #whynot, and I'm tossing up between the XR1000 and Rax200. I have 163m2 (1800 square foot) house, and the primary gaming device is a s...
All depends on what you want to do. If your gaming with old Starcraft, and not much gaming on newer multi player online games like CoD, Halo and such, then you may not really need the XR series of routers as they are designed towards newer online multiplayer games.
Thanks for the reply, yeah I rarely play new games to be honest!
Upon further research it seems the multi-gig is only single port, so if I do have 2 or 4gbit fibre coming into the ONT, I'd only be able to get 1gbit to my pc anyway. I may need to consider the Asus rt-ax89x it seems
Upon further research it seems the multi-gig is only single port, so if I do have 2 or 4gbit fibre coming into the ONT, I'd only be able to get 1gbit to my pc anyway. I may need to consider the Asus rt-ax89x it seems
Obviously I'm going to be biased on this one, but I just thought I'd chip in and mention that the XR1000 will offer a pretty big benefit when you have other devices on the network using bandwidth i.e streaming Netflix, watching YouTube, Downloading things, etc.
When this is happening, Starcraft is going to have to compete with all of this traffic. With DumaOS, you can prioritise the Starcraft traffic to be sent out ahead of anything else on the network, meaning you have a nice stable ping even when there's lots of other things going on in the network. As you say, that ping may be high given your location, but it'll be nice and stable too.
- Appreciate the input, biased or not!
Typically it's just my gf playing mobile games on the network and my pc gaming so there's not really ever a bandwidth stress per say.. We don't have any kids, and if we're streaming something on Netflix Im not gaming at the same time, as our living room is a multi purpose gaming / cinema setup with a single sound system for it all!
I gotta admit I definitely prefer the aesthetics of the x12 by a considerable margin too.
There's no way to put DumaOS on them from what I understand right? That would be the ultimate solution.Sounds cool! Yeah they do look pretty cool too.
I'm afraid as yet there's not any way to put DumaOS on it, it needs to be a DumaOS powered router right out the box to accept those firmwares.