Hi, MikroTik staff, can you explain what is NETDUMA ? netduma.com ?
This is Your official partner ? You give them access for flash yours routers with his own OS ?
This is legal to resell your product with rebranded name ?
Thanks.
Don’t quite see what the problem is?
The router more than likely runs some MetaRouter image or something with a custom interface… Frankly, looks like a substantial amount of work went into it to be honest…
Interesting, are they running RouterOS or their own firmware? Maybe something based on OpenWRT?
Perhaps that’s because there isn’t one?
I’m also curious. Is the product good? At least the hardware is good.
The netduma guys use their own custom version of OpenWRT on the MT routers
Interesting… I would like to know if they sell enough devices to be able to fund the software development and all the logistics around… Otherwise it is too risky for any user to go by that way…
Interesting to note that there are many more reviews for the Netduma than the RB951G-2HnD.
… Because they are paid maybe?
Had a look, to the system … obviously some fork or kind of open-wrt …
not much functionality left, from what you can get, if ROS or an ‘open’ OpenWRT is installed.
Strolled into the Netduma-forum, where the Netduma-CTO claims, that the machine contains proprietary QoS-functionality, which makes the system unique and the best “Gaming-Router” on the market.
The special QoS-code prevents/decreases the gamers network-environment from “lagging” (which is ordinary said: latency).
There’s no other access to the box then an unencrypted web-gui (cozy designed, that I have to give … lot of parameter-descriptions transmuted to gamer-slang … and a wolf is all the time watching you
[ … and no … you cannot choose another animal … the wolf it is ]).
So with no CLI-access (or none that I’ve found) an on-box debug of that anti-lagging-functionality … … for gamers and for non-Netduma-employees: not possible.
While a 951G-2HnD with ROS is around 70€ … the Netduma-version is worth 195€ … everyone can make it’s own tentative conclusions.
I did mine and reflashed ROS.
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PS note: a nice feature: power-supply comes with a switch … fancy!
PS2: while cleaning up a little … found out this isn’t the original power-supply … there’s a little netgear sticker on the bottom of it … so definitly not the cause of the mentioned 125€ price-differ
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Their upgrade instructions are quite weird: http://support.netduma.com/support/solutions/articles/16000085789-how-to-upgrade-your-r1-from-version-1-03-5m-or-lower
Also firmware download link goes to dropbox. And yes, file is encrypted.