I'm bored. I can't find any of the gear I need at the moment so in my boredom I was looking again at DumaOS. I tried it once before and loved it but was disappointed with the limitations and the bugs. I am just wondering if anyone is using 3.0 and whether it's any good?
How's DumaOS these days?
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A gimicky sales pitch based on low end hardware and a flashy GUI and lots of buzz words, having read through the site. Also:
Because all other routing software is designed to make your network as terrible as possible.
The 'tech specs' tell you nothing except it uses low end older hardware, it doesn't even mention the CPU aside from it being 'dual core' (probably a low end MIPS or similar). What's the base - Linux or *BSD? Where are the sources if the former? Fair enough it puts everything under a pretty skin for the user who can't set up a box with cake/fq_codel or similar, but for even £120-£150 you could pick up something more powerful without all the gimmicks.
NetDuma said:
Because all other routing software is designed to make your network as terrible as possible.
The 'tech specs' tell you nothing except it uses low end older hardware, it doesn't even mention the CPU aside from it being 'dual core' (probably a low end MIPS or similar). What's the base - Linux or *BSD? Where are the sources if the former? Fair enough it puts everything under a pretty skin for the user who can't set up a box with cake/fq_codel or similar, but for even £120-£150 you could pick up something more powerful without all the gimmicks.You are looking at the wrong router.
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/xr1000.aspx
Based on the rax50 I believe, which is this one...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/netg...wifi-6-dual-band-gaming-router-nw-27a-ng.html
the difference of course is that the xr1000 has DumaOS 3.0 installed.
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/xr1000.aspx
Based on the rax50 I believe, which is this one...
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/netg...wifi-6-dual-band-gaming-router-nw-27a-ng.html
the difference of course is that the xr1000 has DumaOS 3.0 installed.
Ah, I was looking at the router for sale on (what seems to be) the DumaOS website. Either way I've not tried it, I just don't get the obsession with making a gimmick of 'gaming' everything. Netgear security isn't the be all and end all either (they've refused to patch some serious vulns lately). Give me dedicated stand-alone FOSS boxes any day. I'd personally look elsewhere but it's your cash.
Nothing really. I am just interested in DumaOS because of the really friendly, graphical interface. It's another toy to play with. I bought one once, an XR500 but sent it back because of the bugs. It's also pretty limited in what it can do, it just happens to do those things in a really nice way. I wondered if it had improved since I last used it.
If you like a friendly graphical interface you really ought to have a look at Untangle. You will need a NUC or similar small x86 machine to run it on (it’s Linux) and then you can download and install it for free. A home licence is $50 per year but you get huge functionality for that.
Untangle is easy to use and has a lot of built in functionality for very little money, but *sense is more widely used/documented and can be made to do much the same. It also doesn’t have an annoying bug with Open NAT on Xbox One that is seemingly solved by using WiFi (in part it’s the Xbox’s fault, may have been fixed in current version). The other bonus is it’s Linux based rather than BSD, driver wise that can be useful if you stray off the Intel network chipset path, though what BSD does officially support, it usually supports very well.
I’m a bit confused. Are you saying Untangle isn’t Linux? As far as I’m aware it’s Debian?