Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster

Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by ris on Saturday April 13, 2019 @05:28PM (#19655836)

Yet more hardware junking up the world for people who can't configure software. Got to wonder how rigorously people who install umpteen of these sorts of devices around their home maintain them.

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by llukas on Saturday April 13, 2019 @05:57PM (#19655992)

Please share how do you configure standard android phone or smart devices (TV) phoning home.

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by snazz on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:04PM (#19656032)

Maybe the GP means that you can run a DNS server on your router? Most people own very locked-down consumer routers, however, so this is rarely an option.

Speaking of that, does anyone know of a router that lets you run any operating system (I was thinking OpenBSD) but with better energy usage than a full computer?

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by agurk on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:32PM (#19656169)

By router I assume you mean WiFi AP, firewall and router.

I run pfSense on an Intel box I got from AliExpress (i5-6200U, 8GB ram) as my firewall and use its 6x Ethernet ports for basic routing. Despite having a decently powered spec, in operation it takes 8-9W power.

Searching AliExpress for pfSense returns lots of options, many will have lower consumption.

For WiFi I have a tp-link AP (EAP-225) that takes about 3W.

This is a bit more than an all-in-one consumer unit (the one I replaced was a couple of watts), but I'm very happy with its power consumption.

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by nocturnial on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:33PM (#19656173)

You can try openwrt: https://openwrt.org/

You can install several packages including adblock and cryptdns-proxy. Here's a list of supported routers: https://openwrt.org/toh/start

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by mkup on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:09AM (#19658664)

I have a positive experience with Turris Omnia.

It doesn't run OpenBSD, but it runs OpenWRT-based TurrisOS, and also supports LXC containers (generic ARM-based Linux distros like Debian, Ubuntu etc). By the way, it's possible to install PiHole inside such a container. Besides that, it has builtin WiFi (2.4 and 5 GHz radios) and a plenty of hardware resources (2 Gb RAM, powerful CPU).

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by jinnko on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:26PM (#19656139)

Have a look at OpenWRT

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by mutt2016 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:56PM (#19656577)

Mofirouter ships with it from factory..

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Re:Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster by gordo4 on Saturday April 13, 2019 @06:52PM (#19656262)

PCEngines APU

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