is anyone using ddwrt/open router? I want to set one up and looking to buy router in next sale to have simple ad blocking etc

Was using ddwrt few years back, but did not use adblock in it.

Cheap routers will be the main bottleneck in running services on it though.

Though I have routers which can probably run ddwrt etc but I do not want to mess with my main routers and also do not want to install something that will be hard to access/use for anyone except me.

Now I  just have a VM running pihole for adblocking in my network and my router is stock.

Just buy a raspberry pi zero and install pihole or adguard on it.

SnippierJoker wrote:

Was using ddwrt few years back, but did not use adblock in it.

Cheap routers will be the main bottleneck in running services on it though.

Though I have routers which can probably run ddwrt etc but I do not want to mess with my main routers and also do not want to install something that will be hard to access/use for anyone except me.

Now I  just have a VM running pihole for adblocking in my network and my router is stock.

Just buy a raspberry pi zero and install pihole or adguard on it.

vm running pihole? so your rest of network connects to wifi hosted by vm?

noobDealer wrote:
vm running pihole? so your rest of network connects to wifi hosted by vm?

I have a dedicated virtualization mini pc running Proxmox, One of the service hosted is pihole.

You don't need to connect devices to vm directly. In router you just point the dns servers to your pihole ip address.
The router sends all requests to your pihole which decided what to block or allow, in this way it blocks ads on all devices connected to my home network.

SnippierJoker wrote:
I have a dedicated virtualization mini pc running Proxmox, One of the service hosted is pihole.

You don't need to connect devices to vm directly. In router you just point the dns servers to your pihole ip address.
The router sends all requests to your pihole which decided what to block or allow, in this way it blocks ads on all devices connected to my home network.

yep, i think it's better to just use nextdns free tier for sometime

noobDealer wrote:
yep, i think it's better to just use nextdns free tier for sometime

nextdns is a good option who do not want to deal with self-hosting stuff. It has a similar set of features. Just set nextdns dns address in router and you are good to go. You don't need ddwrt etc for that.

I already had a server hosting media, music etc so I choose to self-host.

Edit- just saw nextdns free has a limit of 300,000 queries a month, so depending on how much deviced you connect and how much you use them it may not be enough. I can hit it in 10 days.

Use Pi hole instead. 

https://pi-hol...t/

For free my recommendation would be with adguard DNS wether hosted or self hosted. I am using Freshtomato with my router but thinking of getting a routerboard from nanopi, currently have two self hosted adguard instances with unbound as base hosted in Hyderabad for better latency and all. I don't mind sharing only if you have dedicated ip for your connection or use DoH/DoT instead of UDP/TCP.

LORDofTheDRINKS wrote:

For free my recommendation would be with adguard DNS wether hosted or self hosted. I am using Freshtomato with my router but thinking of getting a routerboard from nanopi, currently have two self hosted adguard instances with unbound as base hosted in Hyderabad for better latency and all. I don't mind sharing only if you have dedicated ip for your connection or use DoH/DoT instead of UDP/TCP.

trust with DNS goes both ways 😄

noobDealer wrote:
trust with DNS goes both ways 😄

I don't have logging policy, but the ip requirement because of isolated deny all setup. But if someone is using DoT/DoH i don't mind assigning a FQDN for them to use. Well ofcourse if there's is too much load from a single origin it'll be easier for me to blacklist the said origin.

LORDofTheDRINKS wrote:
I don't have logging policy, but the ip requirement because of isolated deny all setup. But if someone is using DoT/DoH i don't mind assigning a FQDN for them to use. Well ofcourse if there's is too much load from a single origin it'll be easier for me to blacklist the said origin.

yep, I understand. It's not much of an issues, just tv needs sorting, STN handles youtube but other apps are hassle. 
laptop has ublock

noobDealer wrote:
yep, I understand. It's not much of an issues, just tv needs sorting, STN handles youtube but other apps are hassle. 
laptop has ublock

If your TV has an option for DoT/DoH don't forget to ping me, my household TVs and devices are all using the best adblocking lists currently available.