I congratulate Voxel for the effort, I hope Netgear will pay him, he certainly deserves it more than the engineers who work within the company.
However his stuff can still be hamstrung of the NG core code is faulty. Something he can't fix until NG fixes it.
Interesting that finally some from my hints re.g. OpenSSL acceleration passed to NETGEAR Guy for NG's developers reached target. It seems that new version of stock fw for XR500 will be asm accelerated (plus use of most recent December's version, as I suggested).
You seem to be missing the point. It’s not about WiFi or Ethernet or hardware it’s about functionality. That part of the interface looks similar i imagine so there is continuity across routers, the rest is quite different. I can remove and pin what I feel I need to the desktop in the router as well as resize those panels. With the XR500 I can change the size of my Geo Filter so I only get fellow players with good ping times so no lagging in games. I always have a defined bandwidth so no matter what starts loading in the background my gaming won’t suffer, I have a huge list of games with profiles created by Netduma that made the R1, not that powerful but was designed firstly with gamers in mind. None of this I can do with the R7800. Its’s more about functionality than it is about hardware, and to be honest I have not found 5 GHz to be lacking any more than my r7800 but there has been a few updates since beta testing.On the XR500 once you click “Netgear Settings” it’s the same menus doc octopus, when dealing with all the non QoS stuff.
Waiting for XR600 - Voxelized R7800
Ya, seems like later versions of FW for NG routers have taken a dive. Someone at the QA test facility is not finding some of these simple things.
Hope you get to try the new beta FW for the Orbi 50. Looking good finally.
I'm on 2.1.3.4 here. Been good. Glad the new beta seems to have help resolve some major issues. Hopefully solid versions going forward.
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