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Was rather shocked to find BT hubs don't allow you to change DNS servers anymore and force you to use their own ones, so I can't properly setup adguard.

What routers are people using now that are reliable and will let me control my own network configuration

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pfsense is fantastic. Extremely flexible. I am contemplating switching to opensense when it's time for an upgrade (it's been running seamlessly for many years, but someday I'll need to).

Note that it's a router, not a wireless access point. For that I use a few Ubiquity APs (I forget the model).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just ordered a Netgate SG-1100 and I am beyond excited to spend the next few days seeing what this thing can do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pfSense is indeed fantastic. The best part about it is you can install it on pretty much anything, as long as you have a couple reasonably fast network interfaces and an okay-ish processor depending on the network load it will just work. Also has OpenVPN server baked in which is pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It also comes with a dyndns-client built in. Very useful for updating the address of the OpenVPN server.