Hello All,

As I am now lumped with the XR700 after having it for over a month, I have collated a list of my findings so far regarding a few issues of concern, I am yet to to test the beta firmware in hopes that some of these issues are corrected.

5 Issues:

1. Logs - the logs file is cleared or left blank randomly. I specifically monitor DoS attacks and other SYN/ACK attempts and its becoming increasingly worrying the logs will randomly dissapear for no reason or stop altogether after a number of attempts are made or other information regarding the operation of the device. I've also noticed more since upgrading to the XR700, this is either because the firewall is better than my previous device (R7000 DD-WRT) or this device is doing other things in the background it shouldn't? (like for example it seems to keep reaching out to sync with various servers for themes and what not and I'm wondering if this is some how broadcasting my IP somewhere?) My use case is literally identical as before, before I upgraded.

2. This brings me onto my next question, when running network security checks the following vulnerability is found on the XR700: EDB-31617.A (Bad Access Rights). I have googled this and the short answer seems like a false positive from when there was a flaw, but surely if it was patched this shouldn't be showing up?

3. The USB readyshare is the most infuriating thing in existance, I have populated both USB ports with identical flash drives which populate and display correctly in the storage manager of the dumaOS, however thats as far as it goes, I cannot edit either of these items when selecting them and selecting "EDIT", the edit panel when hitting apply does not function, regardless of how I format the drives in disk managment (under windows), NTFS/exFAT etc. both drives will always display as T_Drive and USB_Storage within the dumaOS, whilst BOTH will always point to the :T\ drive (USB2 port). I cannot edit or locate the second drive's file tree to add/change. The USB_Storage is always pointing to the first drive under T_Drive, I'm at my wits end.

4. I don't think the dumaOS is correctly removing settings when settings have been applied and then later removed via the GUI, for example when enabling QoS you can see bufferbloat is being corrected during testing, however when disabling QoS and turning all features off, QoS continues to work in the background despite being shown and indicated as disabled in the dumaOS, literally the only way to remedy this is to perform a complete erase and reset back to factory defaults (I tested in various browser versions and reset my network adaptors, /release /flushdns /renew etc). A lot of the dumaOS implementation feels like its not clearing settings correctly or leaving cached settings in the same working space of any given menu/setting.

5. The dumaOS GUI is extremely sluggish, like the bloatware you find on a laptop rammed with Norton Anti-Virus for example, needlessly eating up system resources and almost grinding to a halt, this will vary from time to time (the device is kept in a well ventilated and cool area, heat is not the issue) its extremely bad on first startup after a factory reset, which was identical to when I got it out of the box, luckily I am very patient and like troubleshooting, when the pages timed out I would have to open another tab, point to the URL again and resume from the next step within the XR700's setup. The average person would probably presume their device is faulty, although I am beginning to wonder if mine is lol.

I've upgraded from an R7000 which I have been running on since 2013 and went back to DD-WRT since it really stretches its legs with it. I'm starting to wonder if I've made the right choice.

Edgewise I will try out the beta firmware and see how I get on, if anyone could shed some light on my above findings I would be most greatful, any help is appreciated.

Kind regards,

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