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I bought an used Netgear Nighthawk X4S R7800 off Ebay for around $50 and it works well. Despite its age it's currently running Wireguard, Adguard and Dynamic DNS and it loafs along at below 1% CPU usage most of the time. I have about 30 devices connected locally and another 10 through WG.
If I were to buy new, the GL.iNet Flint 2 ($160) would be at the top of my list.
thank you! I will look into that!
If you get a Gl.inet router be aware that you can reflash the firmware with one based on the mainline OpenWRT kernel or also completely get rid of the gl.inet stuff and run straight OpenWRT. The flint 2 is a really nice router that has Adguard Home (PiHole competitor and arguably better) integrated for ease of use.
Slightly off-topic from the post, but why do you say AdGuard Home is better than Pi-hole? I've tried both and so far Pi-hole seems like the better pick to me.
I ran Pi-hole for a couple of years and switched. Besides preferring the UI on Adguard Home, IMO the big advantage of running a DNS server on OpenWRT is that if the router is up, my DNS server is running. I don't have to rely on a 2nd device and lose Internet access when the Pi is taken down for some reason.
The setup and config for Adguard Home just felt very clunky to me. Pi-hole makes adding multiple lists at once very simple in the GUI or using CLI. Couldn't find something similar for Adguard Home. The setup and configuration felt like it took much longer than it would have with Pi-hole.
"Add Blocklist" > "Choose From List" on Adguard pops up a list of about 75 different block lists and you can check any number of them before saving. I don't remember setup being a lengthy task either, but it's been over a year since I switched. Once set up I rarely touch it except to occasionally turn it off for a couple of minutes so some device can update.
I'm referring to the custom lists I like to use. And adding stuff to whitelist to ensure everything works.
Pi-hole gives a command to add them muiltiple at a time instead of typing or copy-pasting one at a time. Couldn't find the same for AdGuard Home.
Not sure if this is the same thing, but "Custom filtering rules" (for both white and blacklist entries) allow you to enter as many as you want in a single field, or to copy a bunch in at once without having to enter them one at a time. Does Pi-hole have something similar?
I used that for some custom rules and pi-hole has that too. It was just my first time and I was following a pi-hole tutorial so I had to edit all of the rules to the correct syntax. Was my own fault that took so long.
But pi-hole lets you add multiple custom blocklist URLs at a time or add them with commands. I couldn't find anything like that in AdGuard Home. Had to add each blocklist one at a time.
A number of things are integrated to make a simpler setup, it's a single binary, and can be installed easily on an openwrt router and opnsense.
I really think convienence is a huge difference as that's what gets people using stuff and to continue to use stuff