Netduma vs Nighthawk

derrickd241 · October 16, 2015

Like the title says which one would be better the Netduma R1 or the Nighthawk R7000 from a gamers perspective? Would it be worth the upgrade from the Nighthawk? What does everyone think?

thekeemo · October 16, 2015

Doesnt matter. ethernet is ethernet.

failblox · October 16, 2015

Never heard of Netduma, but I finally found the specs of the Netduma R1 after digging around their website for 5 minutes (shouldn't take this long) and it seems there's a reason they're hiding it.

https://netduma.com/features/hardware/

This thing doesn't even have support for 5GHz. Come on. It's 2015 and you expect people to pay $200 for a router that doesn't even have 5GHz?! Their entire website is a bunch of bullshit to attract gamers (and it looks terrible as well IMO).

Get the Nighthawk R7000. It's better in every sense compared to the Netduma R1.

brwainer · October 17, 2015

There is another thread about this Netduma router, but I'll repost the most important bit here: the Netduma product is a rebranded Mikrotik Routerboard product that normally retails for $70-$80 USD - so this is Way Way overpriced. The product image on the hardware page shows that they didn't even remove the label with the model number from the front.

As for lacking 5GHz and AC even at the $70-80 price range, the market that Mikrotik made their product for is more likely to use seperate APs, and this router is meant for more business functions than a consumer one like the Nighthawk. So for most people, use a consumer router.