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ripdog • yesterday at 9:10 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router. Unlike the main Adguard product, Adguard Home is fully FOSS. It's been rock-solid for me, and improves on pi-hole in various ways - like full IPv6 support.

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godelski • today at 12:14 AM

  > That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router.
I'll second this. People should really be flashing their routers. OpenWRT is simple enough that if you're on HN I think you'll easily be able to do it. And like most routers, you set it up and forget it.

But you'll also get a bunch more benefits from OpenWRT, to make it worth your while.

  - I was able to buy a router for <$100 that was WiFi 7 capable (W1700K[0]) and had better hardware than most consumer routers. You can find plenty of cheaper routers that are flashable and more capable.
  - Adguard Home
  - Split tunneling/VLANs: Since we're talking Mullvad, you can put devices behind Mullvad on a VLAN. So activate Mullvad by changing SSIDs.
    - Trivial to put IOT devices on a VLAN (can make one directional too so you can access from your main network but they can't reach back. I throttle everything IOT)
  - Tailscale
  - QoS (Control the speed and prioritization of different connections)
  - It's a fucking computer, you can even run shell scripts
[0] You don't need something like this unless you're getting >1Gbps from your ISP. Big thing I wanted is the 2 10G ports.
sgc • yesterday at 9:22 PM

It's probably the software I trust the most on my network to 'just work', and with the local caching I can use slower upstream dns providers and still have sub 1ms average latency (no performance worries by excluding google and cloudflare). I don't use it for dhcp, but it is a good fit that it's available as well. Couldn't be happier.

Brybry • yesterday at 9:27 PM

I use Mullvad's adblocking DNS server on my phone which is not always behind my home router.

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oofdere • today at 12:20 AM

I could, but DoH/DoT seems very involved to run yourself, and sometimes I need to give a recommendation to someone less tech-savvy.

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