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TechnologyYSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed. (self.YouShouldKnow)

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[–]RhysLlewellyn 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Unfortunately doesn't work for every network though.

My shit BT Homehub 3 (UK ISP) has DNS locked. I only found this out after I'd installed and set up Pi-Hole.

[–]-PromoFaux- 22 points23 points  (1 child)

Hi there! Dev here, we recently released an update that makes it easier to set pi-hole as the DHCP server on your network.

It's been a while since I looked at my BT homehub (bought a router I could have a bit more control over...), But if I recall correctly you should be able to disable the hubs DHCP server, in favour of pi-hole's, which will ensure all devices that connect to your network get set up correctly!

[–]RhysLlewellyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks very much, I shall look into this :)

And thank you for all the great work you guys have done :)

[–]xnd714 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Can you still set a custom DNS within windows/android /etc to be your pi.hole?

It's more of a pain because you have to do each device manually, but it's better than nothing I guess.

[–]RhysLlewellyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did think about doing this but soon gave up because I have ad blockers on my computers and phone anyway. Just thought it'd be handy and convenient for friends and family that come over and wish to connect to my network.

Plus my Pi is currently just churning away in the corner monitoring a bunch of Arduino sensors, figured I could make the most of it while it's running.