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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]: ?
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.
After reading this thread, I'm a little leary of opening the XR500 I bought the other day.. Paying $300 for a router is a pretty hefty investment for majority of people I'd say.
It seems that this just wasn't ready for full release yet. Lots of words thrown out there to help market these "Gaming" routers but not much volume inside, yet.
Think I may return this until it's in a better state. I expected a little more of a poilished product from NETGEAR. I absolutely love what Netduma is trying to accomplish with these routers as a gamer myself, but the price unforunately, doesn't warrant the product in the current state, in my opinion. I love that they are constantly checking on the forums and assisting users.Thank you for this post! Helped my decision!
Yep.
I do agree I think this OS is definitely the future. I just think they need to be careful calling this a gaming router when really it isn't. The prioritisation setup needs in some way to be automatic. If that means them maintaining a web database so be it. It would also help if they have a utility that could set up prioritisation in the PC iteslf. No good having bufferbloat in the router if your PC clogged itself up. At the moment I use the Killer interface becuase it's the only thing out there.With the Killer you just click on a running application and if it isnt priority one you set it to one and it remembers. They also have a much larger database of games. None of this "14" lark. Simple. No more lag generated by the PC. I think so far they are used to enthusiasts following their product but now they have the general public and that's a different beast. They do seem to be great, I just hope they don't blow it by letting down peoples expectations of a "gaming router".