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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 ...
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?
I meant 10001
- It was the one provided by my colleague in your other topic on this matter.
I looked online for the Tera port which said it was UDP and the port you gave. Download the previous firmware from here and follow the instructions to install it.I followed that link but it really doesn't explain anything.
If you google Tera you actually see that sometimes people mention more than one port, they actually mention three. 10001, 80 and 443.
Now for a total noob like me those instructions in the guide are useless. I don't know whether that is one port, two, three or a range. Whether I should add the 80 to the 10001, or what. And the problem is that if I get it wrong, it doesn't work. My point is here that you are talking to people who you seem to assume know what you talking about, but the very point of a gaming router is they don't. If they did they would just buy an ordindary router.
I think this is a worthy OS, and should be in all routers, but honestly I think Netgear have entered in to a world of pain calling it a gaming router.
Incidentally the 1ms is with nothing configured and prioritisation, bufferbloat and all that disbled. With no traffic other than a ping test and the XR500 comes out a consistant 12ms. My old router is 11ms. And honestly it's not a good start if something that's claiming to be a gaming router actually has a worse ping than a standard router ~ irespective of whether I notice it or not.
I will wait for the firmware.
Honestly though I am still annoyed. This I would consider a truly key aspect of performance and for it have such an obvious bug really is inexcusable.
But really, you need to make it easier to add more games. 14 is not "most PC games". I have 900 games and MOST of those will not be recognised by the XR500.