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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 ...
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".
- It says in the guide "If you wish to add just one port, type its number into both the Start and End boxes beneath ‘Destination Port’." so all you need to do is type 10001 and select UDP. If you downgrade to previous firmware version you can add it while you wait for next firmware. It's easier if we keep this to one topic rather than 2.
What guide? Where? I can't see that. How do you even know it's UDP? ( What the heck is UDP?). How do I downgrade Firmware? You seem to think I have a clue. I don't. I mean I have just seen the Tera Port as 1001 and that's that. No further information given.
The entire point of the router for me is that I shouldn't have to understand all this. I mean I know you say you can't do every game for us, but surely that would be the point of calling it a "gaming router"? I would expect hundreds of titles to be covered not 14. If it doesn't ( and it doesn't ) then shouldn't it just be called a router?
When is the next firrmware update expected?