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XR500 glamour has worn off an now I am just angry
OK I started on this forum a week ago all wide-eyed and happy, but now really I am just angry at wasting my money on the XR500.
It was sold to me as a gaming router but seriously it's no different to any other router. I really wanted an easy way to set the priority of games. This really doesn't give you that. I mean I first noticed that it wasn't actually prioritising my games. Then I realised the reason was it wasn't recognising any of them. Then I go away to find out how to manually prioritise them and I am met with a stone wall. Entire reason I bought this thing is that I thought it would make that process simple, yet it is no different to every other router. Simple fact is that there isn't even a guide on how to do that. They talk in terms of Source Ports and Destination Ports. If I wanted all that, I would have bought a different router. I mean I have no idea what those are for the games I play and are you telling me I have to go away, reseach it all, then enter all that manually? Please tell me, in what way is this a gaming router other than by name? Give me one good reason why I shouldn't return this and get something else, cus right now I can't think of one. I wouldn't mind but ping wise it is actually slower than my old router by nearly 1ms.
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Oh yes and by the way, when you try to set up manual port forwarding, it crashes with this error...
Error: RPC error 'ERROR_UNKNOWN': bad argument #1 to 'len' (string expected, got nil) -> stack traceback: ?: in function <?:73> [C]: in function 'len' ?: in function '?' ?: in function 'decode' ?: in function <?:50> (tail call): ? ?: in function <?:324> [C]: in function 'xpcall' ?: in function 'try' ?: in function <?:290> [C]: in function 'run' ?: in function <?:345> [C]: in function 'xpcall' ?: in function 'try' ?: in function <?:261> (tail call): ? /dumaos/api/cli.lua:48: in function </dumaos/api/cli.lua:30> [C]: in function 'xpcall' /dumaos/api/cli.lua:59: in main chunk [C]: ?
- The guide provided in your other post shows you how to add a manual rule (I know you have the error at the moment, will be fixed in next firmware, recommend downgrading for now). What games are you playing? We can't possibly support every single game known to man or research for you. All you need to do is Google "Insert game here ports" and whatever it shows you enter as the destination for Traffic Prio. 1ms is negligible, you will not notice that in any way shape or form. Also likely due to QoS settings
The very first game I tried was Tera. Apparently this needs port 10001. But how is that actually configured? I mean it talks in terms of a port range. There is no range. I mean not that it matters really since the router crashes, but assuming I wait for the next fix, then how do I enter that.
I mean guys this is a KEY area of the router for gamers, yet it's not explained in terms an idiot can understand.When you are given a single port number, well, I have no idea how that equates to source and destination "range".
If you downgrade you can add those priorities but update again, they will stay but the XR500 on any firmware apart from present has a few very nasty security holes and you would be putting yourself at risk.
Thanks for the info. I will leave it then until they sort out the bug with the prioritisation. I have to say that I am disappointed that it all fell flat ~ My old router is faster than the XR500 and I can't prioritise most of the games I play, including new ones coming out, but there you go. I mught as well use tmy old router. *sighs*. I like the OS in the Netgear but seriously I think they are totally decieving people calling it a Gaming Router. Console Router maybe, but Gaming Router, no. Not if you have to manually set it up just like any other router. I mean least they could do is have a web page of settings that the router accesses when you set it up and you can download the settings for more than 14 games!! 14 is a total insult, really.
