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Was rather shocked to find BT hubs don't allow you to change DNS servers anymore and force you to use their own ones, so I can't properly setup adguard.

What routers are people using now that are reliable and will let me control my own network configuration

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lots of good suggestions. The down side to a pc running opnsense is going to be electricity costs. If that's a concern.

Any of the Asus routers supported by Merlin will do what you need. (That's what I'm currently doing). It has a feature called DNS control that will intercept DNS lookups and send them to the servers you define.

Edit: opnsense not nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are mini pcs running atom or celeron with impressive specs and Gbit capability that use <15w

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's actually a long term goal of mine. Get one of those soc boxes with 4 eth ports designed to be a pf/opnsense box.