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Does 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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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.
Dd-wrt was still a lot more stable every single time onva wrt-1900ac.
Can anyone comment on the efficacy of ad blocking with NextDNS compared to Pi-hole?
I should definitely do some benchmarks though. There are occasional times where I feel like DNS lookups take significantly longer than normal but that’s once in a blue moon.
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Just install a low power CPU. You can get one on eBay delivered for a little more than USPS 1st class shipping. Most of my devices, including my NAS, consume 25-35w, so up to 15w additional consumption, as checked with Kill-A-Watt. Ever do a tiny load of laundry to get one shirt clean? You've just used something like a year of computer running. Do you run your air conditioning while your refrigerator exhausts into yo…
There are other power usage concerns beyond cost. For example, if a small room can't have air conditioning you might want only very low power devices to keep from heating it up.
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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?
Most routers are not powerful enough to efficiently run blocklists and analytics locally.
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.
> 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 a…
No more of that. Today, buy a router OpenWrt supports and just install the official images and get on with your life.
Can anyone comment on the efficacy of ad blocking with NextDNS compared to Pi-hole?
I can’t speak to the comparison but as someone who was skeptical of the pihole-on-rpi setup I am now a believer. I can’t live without it now. I should definitely do some benchmarks though. There are occasional times where I feel like DNS lookups take significantly longer than normal but that’s once in a blue moon.
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There are other power usage concerns beyond cost. For example, if a small room can't have air conditioning you might want only very low power devices to keep from heating it up.
~35 watts isn't actually all that much heat load, and that's what you get from the likes of a business-class Core i5 at the loads routing packets would put on it (i.e. basically idle). Something like Atom or AMD Bobcat is Another thing to keep in mind if you're worried about power/heat is that 3.5" spinning rust can pull >5 watts per spindle. I've seen 15K drives pull close to 20. But an SSD is close to nothing and s…
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.
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.