Rockboy247
New Around Here
Afternoon guys,
So yesterday I decided to take the plunge and pick up a new router, this was the ASUS RT-AC86U.
After putting up with the Virgin Media Super Hub for 3-4 years now I thought it was time to put that into modem mode and try out a separate router to see what I have been missing out on.
So I started looking through these forums, and boy, there is a lot of information about these routers and the firmware you can put on them, in fact, its bloody well overwhelming.
One thing I have decided is that I am going load on Merlin to the router, that seems the go-to. My real question is though, once this is on, what sort of addons should i look into loading?
An area i am interested in is ad blocking, I was going to purchase a raspberry PI and set up PI hole but i believe the router itself should be okay at doing this.
I know this is probably asked all the time, i have looked and it seems overwhelming, so please, let me know what i should look at adding for my first steps.
any more information please let me know what i need to include
So yesterday I decided to take the plunge and pick up a new router, this was the ASUS RT-AC86U.
After putting up with the Virgin Media Super Hub for 3-4 years now I thought it was time to put that into modem mode and try out a separate router to see what I have been missing out on.
So I started looking through these forums, and boy, there is a lot of information about these routers and the firmware you can put on them, in fact, its bloody well overwhelming.
One thing I have decided is that I am going load on Merlin to the router, that seems the go-to. My real question is though, once this is on, what sort of addons should i look into loading?
An area i am interested in is ad blocking, I was going to purchase a raspberry PI and set up PI hole but i believe the router itself should be okay at doing this.
I know this is probably asked all the time, i have looked and it seems overwhelming, so please, let me know what i should look at adding for my first steps.
any more information please let me know what i need to include