It is still true that dnsmasq is one of my favorite features of our local network (ad blocking is probably #1 these days), but it’s no longer running on the router. Additionally, I know that my desired setup is possible with OpenWrt. I shied away from the UniFi / Mikrotik (& others?) class of products because it seemed like they (rightly) charge a premium to support their custom software development, and I think my needs are met with the open source & free alternatives. It may end up being the wrong choice (I haven’t yet verified if it saturates our download), but if I do end up replacing it I think I still like the form-factor as a travel router.
I found GL.iNet’s product line while looking for routers that run OpenWrt natively, and picked one that looked reasonable: the Brume. Reviews of consumer routers focus quite a bit on wifi capabilities, which doesn’t matter for us because of the UniFi, and that made it harder to pick something. Honestly though, it wasn’t a huge issue for me since we were satisfied and I’d mostly upgraded for the 3x faster (but still miniscule 🤬) upload speed.įor a replacement, I wanted gigabit ethernet, a USB port (for the pi-hole), and solid OpenWrt support. So we upgraded to the 600/15 plan, and subsequently found out the router couldn’t support routing packets at the speed required to saturate our download. However, when COVID hit and we started video conferencing from home more often, I was entirely unsatisfied with Xfinity’s 5 Mb upload speed. It met our needs: gigabit ethernet & adequate routing speed. Until a couple days ago, I’ve been using the same router since 2009 ( D-link DIR-825) 1. I expect to get many years out of it, and hope that I’ll be able to just drop in a replacement when the time comes. The fact that it took me two years before I chose that spot and ran that wire in our new home is a different conversation 😭. I like that it’s independently upgradable, and that I can run a single wire to a central location to achieve decent Wifi coverage at our house. I jumped on the UniFi bandwagon in 2017, after we started getting 802.11ac devices. This will be heavy on rationale, and light on step-by-step since I find that’s most helpful for me. At the time, I didn’t take great (any?) notes, and while in theory I knew what I’d done and how to reproduce it, now that I’ve re-created the setup for new router hardware I’m going to add it to this blog. I spent several days messing with our network setup, and finally got something I was happy with. I had an extra Raspberry Pi Zero W, and a coworker mentioned they were happy with Pi-hole. Several years ago, I decided to try out network-level ad blocking at home.
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