Recent content by bluzfanmr1

Thanks to you, our host, and everyone here. In addition to myself and my toys, I have a half dozen others using Asus products now because of this site.

For years I've run Pi-hole on several various Pogoplug's; the E02, the Pro, a V4, and a Mobile. Recently they are becoming obsolete as support for old ARM versions are sunsetted, though you can still compile to keep them going. I don't think I paid more than $20 for any of them and they had more...

My new house is Spectrum territory but I went with fiber. I hadn't looked at Spectrum since moving here 6 months ago and just did so. Looks like I can get 2Gig/1Gig for $60 per month. Tempting but unnecessary and I doubt I'd ditch the fiber.

Here's the settings on my GT-AX6000 and I have no issues with wifi calling. As far as I can remember, these are the defaults and I've never changed them.

I use AGH on the router which feeds Unbound on the router. I'm not trying to hide and I know they will get you one way or another. For me it's all about network performance. I've tried every option but this setup works best. The difference is very minimal when you are talking milliseconds but...

In March I moved to a new house and Brightspeed Fiber. To get your own router working you have to follow one simple step after removing the Brightspeed modem. See here: Brightspeed Fiber Asus Router Setup

Shot in the dark here. I have fiber and to use the modem directly, I have to set a VID of 201 (Brightspeed Fiber) on the IPTV tab for internet to work. It reminds me of the issues I had until I realized I had to do this but like I said, maybe a shot in the dark.

They are similar in that they both block ads. There isn't much difference, though the software and interface will be different while accomplishing the same thing. I'd say Pi-hole is much easier to use on another device besides the router right now, but those on this thread may change that!

All good here. One little thing is my wireless Canon printer doesn't show it's name in the wireless log. It does show up everywhere else including arp -a. The printer is up to date with the latest drivers so not sure if it's a Canon thing or not but it's not a big deal as everything works just fine.

Go to "Wireless - Professional", choose the 2.4 GHz band and you'll see it there.

I use a good Samsung SSD in an enclosure and USB3. I also have ipv6 turned off so I'm not sure if that makes any difference.

I use AGH and Unbound. I've found that refreshing the page at the beginning of an ad, sometimes it takes multiple times, bypasses the ads. Sometimes ads will get blocked during the videos but it's hit and miss.

My understanding of Unbound was that it manages when to know to look for a refreshed record and that it doesn't need to look every single time. To me, it looked like the change was causing a lookup just about every time, slowing down DNS resolution on the network, and making Unbound like any...