![]() While less comprehensive and customisable than a self-hosted ad-blocking DNS server, for the time being the convenience and simplicity of this solution wins. Recently I learned that AdGuard DNS service is currently available free of charge, simply by setting it as the router’s DNS server address (or, less conveniently, by overriding the setting in individual devices). I had previously been considering self-hosting either Pi-Hole or Adguard-Home. ![]() None of these benefits seen by the ordinary user are unique to OpenWrt, of course.Īd blocking was the trigger for this whole exercise. stronger WiFi signal now covering the whole house and garden.Where the previous router had hung lopsided from one screw, to make a better impression and improve its chances of acceptance by the family I screwed it neatly to the wall and tidied the wires. ![]() ADSL WAN connection, wired, wireless, and my port forwarding rules for my servers, and some bits of static DHCP and static DNS hostname entries. A quick in-place firmware upgrade, followed by many hours figuring out how to make and manage the configuration, resetting, starting again from defaults, and it’s now all working. So it was that I took a second look at this TP-LINK TD-W8970 router.Ī pleasant surprise awaited: I found that OpenWrt had just the previous week released a major update, a 2021 version, a year and a half since their previous 2019 version, and it looks much more polished. (It was a Sagemcom 2704N, also branded PlusNet and Technicolor.) Its UI was slow and awkward, its features were very bare and its WiFi was weak. I was able to regain internet access temporarily, by manually configuring each of our devices to use external DNS server addresses instead of the router’s local address. I tried power-cycling the router, of course, but avoided doing a factory reset because then I would lose my port forwarding that provides access to my self-hosted services such as Matrix and contacts and calendar, and would not be sure I could reconfigure everything. Its DNS gateway function and SSH access died too, while some functions such as its basic routing and port forwarding continued. There was a simple web UI to enter the addresses, but, after doing so, its web UI promptly and permanently died and would not come back. This week, our noddy little ISP-provided router keeled over.Īll I did was try to change its upstream DNS server addresses to point to AdGuard’s ad blocking service.
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