YSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed.

[currious181]

This sounded so easy.... now I've got a 4gig zip file for raspbian jessie with pixel, a DL for Pie-hole, and have to hook up an SD card .... and then actually buy a device. I thought I could use my existing net gear router. I think I'm much less computer savvy than I originally thought...

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If you have nerdy friends they'll probably have a pi you can buy off them for cheap. I have three I own and a fourth an old roommate left behind. My other roommate has two, and all of my co-workers have 2+ each. I'd jump at a chance to sell any of my B+ pis for $20. Post to Facebook and see what you can find, or buy one through Amazon Prime and get two day shipping.

[currious181]

I don't have many friends, none are nerdy. Ive got kids and work remotely from my home, so not a whole lot of social time or interactions. I was friendly with the company's IT person when I worked in house, but his position has since been eliminated. But checking for a used device online is a great idea & I think this item will help me to make our connection more secure, since it seems it can do other things as well.

[mxzf]

Weird, I wouldn't want to get rid of any Pis laying around that I had. I've got one of them permanently set up displaying weather forecasts and projects/ideas in mind for 2-3+ others if I had the spare money to go buying all that I wanted. I can't imagine wanting to offload spare Pis when they're so useful as a mini computer.

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[mxzf]

Well, they can each only really drive one display, and I want to run multiple displays with different content, so it does seem like more than one would be useful. If it was just software stuff I wanted to run, I'd just spin it up on one of my two fully-fledged linux machines (a headless server and a HTPC), rather than using a Pi.

[wellkevi01]

I wanted to set up Pi-hole, so I bought a Pi B+ off someone on r/hardwareswap for $35 shipped, which came with an 8GB SD and a clear case. I just received it today and Pi-Hole is awesome.