What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
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Re: OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
#12Does this add a lot of much needed wireless support? I tried this on my wrt3200acm and lost quite a few wireless features and was forced to switch back.
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#13As an AdGuard and Pi-hole user I want to like NextDNS but when I tried it there wasn’t an easy way to temporarily disable blocking. Is that still right? I think that would make it a nonstarter for most of my friends and family.
As family, just share the web admin login, easy to toggle things. Make it a home screen icon.
With the common ‘social-graph trackers’ apps list tab, toggling WhatsApp if you have to text with a European or Instagram if you want to post is easy, for instance.
Or, leverage the NextDNS app, and use the giant toggle button.
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#14What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
The generic answer:
1. OpenWRT for the most flexibility but you have to edit config files for the more obscure stuff. Tends to take more memory/CPU than others and tends not to run well on older hardware. An entire platform.
2. DD-WRT for the most features available from the web interface. Older versions are suggested for older hardware but that might have security implications.
3. Tomato for the easiest and nicest web configuration interface. Does not support as wide a range of hardware as the others. Might also have issues with older hardware for more obscure features.
Re: OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
#15Can anyone comment on the efficacy of ad blocking with NextDNS compared to Pi-hole?
My OpenWRT uses in-memory blacklist in dnsmasq on Omnia Turris that's faster than rpi. I would imagine the performance of settings it on pihole would be unnoticeable, as it also stores blacklist in memory. The only latency difference would be in network request likely.
Also on Turris with knot-resolver and adblock... is there a reason to outsource blocking really? Why trust nextdns? Isn’t going to be a subscription based service once out of beta?
Re: OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
#16That is a good news ! I use NextDNS for me and my kids. It's making a real difference.
https://nextdns.io/ >Get in-depth analytics about your Internet traffic. >Shield your kids from adult content. Do you use NextDNS as a way to monitor your children online?
I would've hated it if my parents could monitor my internet access when I was 15 in the early 2000s. I've been in some weird places by pure chance and curiosity, though the Geocities era of the Internet was much different that today's.
Re: OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
#17What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
DD-WRT hasnt had a stable release in 11 years.
Tomato hasn't had a stable release in 9 years.
OPEN-WRT is a fork of DD-WRT. Lede was a fork of OPEN-WRT, but has remerged with OPEN-WRT. OPEN-WRT is the best firmware for home routers/access points in my opinion.
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#18This is cool as an option but personally I prefer filtering at home using Diversion and Skynet on AsusWRT router firmware.
This dns may be a good option for the non-technical but personally I never want a DNS to do filtering for me.
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#19What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
DD-WRT hasnt had a stable release in 11 years. Tomato hasn't had a stable release in 9 years. OPEN-WRT is a fork of DD-WRT. Lede was a fork of OPEN-WRT, but has remerged with OPEN-WRT. OPEN-WRT is the best firmware for home routers/access points in my opinion.
OpenWrt is not a DD-WRT fork.
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#20What is the best alternative router firmware these days? The last time I looked into this, I believe it was between DD-WRT and Tomato.
> What is the best alternative router firmware these days
I don't know that there is one.
My experience these days when I install a new wifi router is wading through pages and pages of forum posts to try and identify the firmware (or particular build thereof) that will work best on the particular hardware I am configuring that day.
Usually, after a few hours of digging, I sort of "converge" on a particular firmware and a particular release.
Then it's on to experimenting if the thing actually works. If it doesn't, rinse and repeat.
This is very frustrating, and for a number of reasons:
- From a security perspective, you end up installing a random unvetted piece of binary software on what is basically the gate holding the fort secure.
- You operate on hearsay (forum posts)
- There is no guarantee the process will converge.