Hi all. Long time fan of the site.
Its been a while since I rolled my own wireless/wired router setup. I currently run a D-Link DSR-250 with a combination of Bell Home 3000 and Apple Extreme wireless APs. I use a RPi with Pi-Hole to great affect to deal with ads, etc... from my fiber internet connection.
At my cottage I've been living with a Virgin Mobile LTE sim in a Huawei LTE router and pay as you go, but I easily blow it out each month (4-5GB, no streaming, some podcast downloads and whatever our phones and tablets do in the background). I run an LTE repeater to get better signal to the router than I used to get with just the phones walking around the property. I tried last Winter to build a custom Wifi router with baked in Pi-Hole (with some Android, Microsoft and Apple update blocking), OpenVPN (bridged to my home VPN) and an attempt at web caching in an effort to control data usage and live with the setup a little longer, but it didn't work out.
So, I'm here, cap in hand, looking for ideas. Is there a router out there that everyone is adopting for more powerful features, like DNS based ad-blocking/security, etc... that I can catch up on?
I have half a mind to just get a rural over-the-air internet hook up, but its like $60/m for 5M/1M with a 50GB cap. I could split that with my neighbour, but we're like 320 feet from each other, and he's up the hill a bit. So I won't be able to blanket the area, but he's retired and would won't use it inside in the evening. I could run PoE outdoor ethernet to an outdoor CPE AP between us. That could actually get us outdoor wifi. Disclaimer: I'm not trying to get wifi in the country so much as figuring out what it would take to split an internet bill. I would like to work remotely during the Summer sometimes.
So maybe if there was a router with a PoE port, that would be a plus.
Anyways, any tips are welcome. I'll update next Spring on what I did and how I did it.
Its been a while since I rolled my own wireless/wired router setup. I currently run a D-Link DSR-250 with a combination of Bell Home 3000 and Apple Extreme wireless APs. I use a RPi with Pi-Hole to great affect to deal with ads, etc... from my fiber internet connection.
At my cottage I've been living with a Virgin Mobile LTE sim in a Huawei LTE router and pay as you go, but I easily blow it out each month (4-5GB, no streaming, some podcast downloads and whatever our phones and tablets do in the background). I run an LTE repeater to get better signal to the router than I used to get with just the phones walking around the property. I tried last Winter to build a custom Wifi router with baked in Pi-Hole (with some Android, Microsoft and Apple update blocking), OpenVPN (bridged to my home VPN) and an attempt at web caching in an effort to control data usage and live with the setup a little longer, but it didn't work out.
So, I'm here, cap in hand, looking for ideas. Is there a router out there that everyone is adopting for more powerful features, like DNS based ad-blocking/security, etc... that I can catch up on?
I have half a mind to just get a rural over-the-air internet hook up, but its like $60/m for 5M/1M with a 50GB cap. I could split that with my neighbour, but we're like 320 feet from each other, and he's up the hill a bit. So I won't be able to blanket the area, but he's retired and would won't use it inside in the evening. I could run PoE outdoor ethernet to an outdoor CPE AP between us. That could actually get us outdoor wifi. Disclaimer: I'm not trying to get wifi in the country so much as figuring out what it would take to split an internet bill. I would like to work remotely during the Summer sometimes.
So maybe if there was a router with a PoE port, that would be a plus.
Anyways, any tips are welcome. I'll update next Spring on what I did and how I did it.