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I run it at home and it is awesome! My friend who is a tech director for a small school district (800 total users) 450 machines runs it at the school and it has been a lifesaver for him.
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@penguinwrangler I bet! The school is a prefect place for this!
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@penguinwrangler said in Pi Hole:
I run it at home and it is awesome! My friend who is a tech director for a small school district (800 total users) 450 machines runs it at the school and it has been a lifesaver for him.
What does he run it on? RPi? Actual server?
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@nerdydad I believe he has it on a virtual machine. Ubuntu 16.04 I believe. 1 vCPU and 1GB of Memory 20GB Hard Drive. The addition of Fedora and CentOS is relatively new. When it first started they didn't have them as an option, and actually, Raspbian was the only supported OS at the very beginning.
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The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.
That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.
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Damn. Now I'm going to have to try it at the house. Looks like a winner.
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@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:
@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.
That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.
That's what I did
My roommate wants to know if we upgraded the internet lol
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@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:
@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:
The biggest win with this is mobile ads. Many mobile sites are practically unusable with Ads.
That's pretty nice. And it's all so easy, just happens on your network transparently once you add it to DHCP.
That's what I did
My roommate wants to know if we upgraded the internet lol
In a way, you did. The stats that I am seeing suggests that it is a little like getting an 8% boost!
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Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
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@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
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@jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:
@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.
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@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:
@jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:
@quixoticjustin said in Pi Hole:
Very cool product, will have to check it out. Looks easy to use and the graphs are just neat.
I assume that's I can specify the forwarders that this will use? Because I am using strongarm.io and so not want to lose that service.
I'm sure that you can. During install it asks you to pick from a list of options (Google, OpenDNS, etc.) but I'm not sure how you determine it after the fact. But probably easy.
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Installed it last night on a Fedora VM. Works really well. Should have done it a long time ago.
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@brandon220 Me too!
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I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.
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@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:
I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.
There are ad blockers that block scripts balking at you for blocking ads.
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@brandon220 Is your internet faster? Mine seems to be...
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@aaronstuder I had to leave for flooding so I didn't get much testing done. I am back home now and plan on doing some testing tonight.
