{"id":626,"date":"2018-03-14T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/14\/the-hard-stuff-netgears-nighthawk-xr500-gaming-router-and-sx10-gaming-switch\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T10:59:13","slug":"the-hard-stuff-netgears-nighthawk-xr500-gaming-router-and-sx10-gaming-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/14\/the-hard-stuff-netgears-nighthawk-xr500-gaming-router-and-sx10-gaming-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard Stuff: Netgear’s Nighthawk XR500 Gaming Router and SX10 Gaming Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few months in the past, I obtained an electronic mail from Netgear asking me (and others I\u2019m certain) to fill out a survey as a way to obtain a gaming router and swap in trade for a assessment. Considering, \u201cI\u2019m small fry, they\u2019ll by no means ship me one.\u201d, I crammed it out and despatched it off. A couple of weeks later, an enormous field arrived at my door with these two issues in it:<\/p>\n

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I used to be each shocked and horrified. I\u2019d by no means used a separate router earlier than, not to mention a swap. I simply related each dang factor to my cable modem and been completed with it (which could\u2019ve defined the dropped frames I\u2019d been getting, however extra on that in a second), so I had no thought what to do with the factor, to be completely trustworthy. The directions that got here with the router have been marvelously easy: Use the offered ethernet cable to attach the router to your modem.<\/p>\n

So a couple of month in the past, I did, and solely related one factor to the router: my gaming PC. I left all the pieces else \u2014 Ps, Steam Hyperlink, and many others \u2014 on the cable modem. I then adopted the directions to arrange the in-system software program, known as DumaOS. It comes with a very fairly dashboard, which seems to be like this:<\/p>\n

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Sadly, it doesn\u2019t like Bitdefender very a lot, so I started getting errors like these:<\/p>\n

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Oddly sufficient, the software program works FINE in Incognito Mode in Chrome. Regardless, it has a variety of good options. You may see which items of {hardware} are utilizing your router:<\/p>\n

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And you may set bandwidth settings PER DEVICE, which is so cool, so I completely did:<\/p>\n

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I used to be then instructed later, on the DumaOS boards, that I ought to tweak my settings a bit like this:<\/p>\n

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Which has truly been fairly dang nice to date. The software program, general, is approach, WAY extra user-friendly than the software program on the ARRIS cable modem I\u2019d been utilizing, and when it\u2019s not crashing (I\u2019ve learn Bitdefender will launch a repair for this subject quickly) it really works nice. Thus far, the software program portion of the router has been preeeetty improbable.<\/p>\n

As soon as I acquired all the pieces arrange correctly. I then examined it with what I believed could be two demanding video games: Frontier Pilot Simulator and Redout Enhanced Version. I figured these quick, demanding video games would possibly put some additional weight on the stream.<\/p>\n