Netgear xr500 your experiences with this router.

[avtella]

On the XR500 once you click “Netgear Settings” it’s the same menus doc octopus, when dealing with all the non QoS stuff.

 

[e38BimmerFN]

Yes, Voxel does a great job on keeping the R7800 and the others he develops working well. However his stuff can still be hamstrung of the NG core code is faulty. Something he can't fix until NG fixes it.

 

[avtella]

Well they are slowly changing hopefully for the better. They had a new UI supposed to be out by now which was a huge improvement in booth looks and speed in my testing on an R8500 but it’s been delayed yet again since last year. They need a few Voxels to maybe speed things up

 

[e38BimmerFN]

I agree, seems that NG are doing maybe too many things and not focusing more on quality enough. I see many issues between the Nighthawk and Orbi products, makes me wonder what there doing over there. There forums are very active compared to other Mfr forums I read. Too many issues seems like in FW. Someones not doing enough QA testing in FW development. Allot of issues that should have been caught in testing before release.

 

[Voxel]

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.

Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate.

Voxel (Dante).

 

[Voxel]

However his stuff can still be hamstrung of the NG core code is faulty. Something he can't fix until NG fixes it.

There is some progress:

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).

Voxel.

 

[Voxel]

And finally just my opinion. Too many replies from me, it is unusual. Friday's beer probably...

Most cool router from NETGEAR is R9000 (R8900). They have declared:

https://www.netgear.com/landings/worlds-fastest-router/


The World's Fastest Router

and this is true. I did a lot of tricks with R7800. But R9000 works fine w/o any necessity in such tricks.

Voxel.

 

[avtella]

Waiting for XR600 - Voxelized R7800

 

[Killhippie]

On the XR500 once you click “Netgear Settings” it’s the same menus doc octopus, when dealing with all the non QoS stuff.

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.

For myself the its extra functionality that helps me have a better gaming experience. That’s important to me and if it’s not for you which is fair enough there is the r7800 Also it’s not minor changes it’s a very big change you’ve got a completely different interface when you step out of the netgear one and even that has been updated a bit, you have the DPI engine to recognise gaming you can have QoS on always you can turn it off you can have it kicking in when it recognises it’s gaming you have granular control over each devices bandwidth it’s vastly different to the 7800 and it looks nothing like any other netgear router when you log and has features the other router doesn’t have, in fact you could say the r7800 is annoying branding because that is classified as a gaming router when it really hasn’t got that many features to separate it from any other Netgear apart from streamboost.

 

[Voxel]

OK,

"This message is awaiting moderator approval, and is invisible to normal visitors."

Seems my message will be available for reading later.

In general: I very like NG hardware. That's all.

Voxel.

 

[e38BimmerFN]

We do too.

 

[Killhippie]

Yes indeed and on that note it’s time for me to grab my dinner.

 

[e38BimmerFN]

Lunch time here. MMMM.

 

[Voxel]

Waiting for XR600 - Voxelized R7800

Voxelization:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-voxelization



Bon Appétit Killhippie,

Voxel.

 

[RogerSC]

Also a big fan of Netgear hardware, after some hard lessons with Asus and Linksys, unfortunately. I do wish that they could do a little better on firmware, though. They did seem to learn a lot from the R7000 and the months that it took them to get that one working well. Ended up using third-party firmware most of the time on the R7000. The R7800 came out with fully functional, working firmware. The functionality where they had "out-of-the-gate" problems with the R7000 were already functional. I appreciated that. Although the web admin interface was and still is slow for such a fast processor.

And the Orbi firmware worked well for me until it didn't, and then the fact that I couldn't turn off auto-update was a killer. I figured out how to block auto-update, but it took me too long, and I just got tired of fighting it. I do appreciate that they sped up the web admin interface, though.

But I do like Netgear hardware, have a couple of Netgear switches, as well as a wireless ethernet bridge. Good, reliable hardware.

 

[e38BimmerFN]

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.

 

[RogerSC]

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've had the 2.2 Beta version of the Orbi firmware installed for a few days now, and it's doing fine. I'm waiting for the next official release of Orbi firmware, hoping that it will do as well.

 

[e38BimmerFN]

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.

 

[Gitsum]

Ordered one of these today. Looks like a winner for me.

 

[Killhippie]

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.

Latest Firmware version is 2.2.1.10

• Supports more languages.

Bug Fixes:

1. Fixes security issues.
2. Fixes the firmware update issue.