Comment on YSK: you can setup pihole on any old rooted android (5.0+) device

Madex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Running a pi-hole doesn’t require much juice. It’s a fancy DNS server, not a router. First gen raspberry pis were pretty weak and even those things didn’t even break a sweat.

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  • Madex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Another person who doesn’t know what they are talking about

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    • Boxtifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For home use, they barely do much. At an enterprise level, then it’s another story.

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      • Madex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You try browsing with 50ms average pin to a dns server where a website loads thousands of objects :(

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• couragethebravedog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I believe you can do Ethernet over USB c on some devices.

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• trash@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh for sure. I think this is for a very niche user base: People who know about PiHole but don’t have a pi/linux box but do have an old Android phone. It’s definitely a strange but cool project.

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• chrizbie@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen any notable issues yet, a lot of people use a wireless pi zero to do the same thing so as long as you aren’t running a state of the art gaming rig (which i’m not) I think it’ll be fine

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  • Boxtifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your client hardware wouldn’t matter tho. State of the art or whatnot of a gaming rig would be fairly low. In sure most modern mobile phones create more DNS requests these days compared to a Windows machine and steam. It’s the configured software on the hosts that will dictate how much traffic your devices will get. A lot also cache by listening to the TTL. There will be some form of additional latency but your average Joe won’t probably notice.

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    • chrizbie@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh I see well I could say I’m an average Joe lol

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• TrustingZebra@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not sure about that. The average consumer router is fairly underpowered but is still capable of handling the needs of most home networks.

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  • buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wifi adds latency. Adding 30-300 ms of latency will noticeably affect your browsing experience.

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    • Madex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly, I’m being down voted for two comments which are wrong, meh.

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    • chrizbie@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably worth it to remove ads and trackers thogh

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  • Madex@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think you know about what you’re talking about mate

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