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Does a pihole setup not slow down your connectivity? Been looking into it but I'm very much a novice with my raspberry pi. I do want to use it for something cool other than just sitting around.
And my question is only deepened by the fact that I have a synology box as well. I could use pihole on that instead of my raspberry pi, right?
Pi-hole's not a router, just a fancy DNS server. Your network traffic doesn't go through it, so its impact on your speeds is negligible. Since all it does is respond to DNS queries and keep logs, it also doesn't require a lot of processing power. I used to run it on the first gen raspberry pi, and even that puny thing could easily handle the job. Your Synology box should be able to do it just fine.
Ideally Pihole should actually speed up your connectivity by blocking all of the tracking and ad connections your browser and apps would normally make. Since it’s basically just a DNS server, it doesn’t take much horsepower to run either.
Easily, I went from through several gen of pi and now run it on docker on my Synology.
As mentioned, it's just a DNS server (at its core) and can actually make things faster as you will no longer download ads.
There are some getting used to things. Some url shorteners (constant contact) don't work and sponsored Google search results won't work. But the QOL is worth it.