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Hi,

Once Merlin stopped supporting my Asus RT-AC66U, rather than getting a newer ASUS, I went with the Ubiquiti USG, 24 port switch and WAPs. My home is mostly wired devices, so I really liked the 24 port switch, replacing a handful of dumb 8 porters and solving some network issues.

But I haven't been able to give up my ASUS, so I have a nasty double NAT setup, barely working. Cable modem -> Asus -> Ubiquiti. Yeah, I'm not that bright.

So what keeps me on the ASUS that I can't figure out is the following:
- OpenVPN
- AB-Solution with pixelserv-tls

I was thinking to setup a Raspberry Pi 2 (on-hand) with OpenVPN. But I'm not sure what I can do with the ad-blocking, want one that works on https. Looking for a simple solution to install & maintain.

Thanks.
 
What about Pi-hole? I've never used it myself but I've heard people talk about it in these forums.
shut your Pi-hole -bender :p . Such a funny name. Still though any board you buy has a hardware spec and a limit. When it comes to filtering and security you have 2 parameters, ram and CPU. The larger your filter or the more connections, the more ram you need. The faster your WAN, the more CPU you need. For openVPN, with stock asus firmware you may not be able to do custom routing to make use of it.
Hi,

Once Merlin stopped supporting my Asus RT-AC66U, rather than getting a newer ASUS, I went with the Ubiquiti USG, 24 port switch and WAPs. My home is mostly wired devices, so I really liked the 24 port switch, replacing a handful of dumb 8 porters and solving some network issues.

But I haven't been able to give up my ASUS, so I have a nasty double NAT setup, barely working. Cable modem -> Asus -> Ubiquiti. Yeah, I'm not that bright.

So what keeps me on the ASUS that I can't figure out is the following:
- OpenVPN
- AB-Solution with pixelserv-tls

I was thinking to setup a Raspberry Pi 2 (on-hand) with OpenVPN. But I'm not sure what I can do with the ad-blocking, want one that works on https. Looking for a simple solution to install & maintain.

Thanks.
Dont forget that openVPN throughput depends on the encryption you use and whether or not the there exists a hardware acceleration solution for it.
 
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As his current router has a 600MHz single-core MIPS processor and 256MB of RAM, I'd imagine his RPi2 with a 900MHz quad-core ARM processor and 1GB RAM would be an improvement. ;)
 
As his current router has a 600MHz single-core MIPS processor and 256MB of RAM, I'd imagine his RPi2 with a 900MHz quad-core ARM processor and 1GB RAM would be an improvement. ;)
True, though MIPS and ARM are not equal. Purely in logical performance MIPS > ARM but when you have more cores at higher clocks, hard to argue.

You can still go for the rasberry pi 3, a new one is coming out with 480Mb/s ethernet which would help, along with the 64 bit 4 core at 1Ghz or more sporting far more performance. You'd need a 2+A phone charger at least.
 
Would a RPi 3+ be able to handle OpenVPN and PiHole concurrently?

Will PiHole work on the https ads?

I only use OpenVPN for accessing my network when I'm out of town. Speed not too critical for me.
 
Would a RPi 3+ be able to handle OpenVPN and PiHole concurrently?

Will PiHole work on the https ads?

I only use OpenVPN for accessing my network when I'm out of town. Speed not too critical for me.
it has more CPU so it'd be able to handle it, but if you need even more performance, consider the asus thinkerboard, it comes with gigabit ethernet and 2GB of ram, though if the 3+ does come with 2GB of ram you can also consider it.

Not sure if it will work with https ads.
Specs
RPI 3/3B+ 1.2Ghz/1.4Ghz x4 64 bit low power CPU, 1GB ram, 100Mb/s ethernet or 480Mb/s ethernet
ASUS Thinkerboard 1.8Ghz x4 32 bit optimised higher performance CPU, 2GB ram, 1Gb/s ethernet but costs double. Exactly the same form factor and compatibility.

either will work, it'd depend on your WAN speeds and how large your filter is. There are other boards but for below $100 there arent many great ones. I have a few, even udoo as well but the only udoo to consider are the x86 ones as their ARM ones are slower.
 
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