YSK: you can setup pihole on any old rooted android (5.0+) device
I just discovered this and it works fantastically on any old / unused android device you might have lying around, I was shocked at how easy it was, all the instructions are there, once you have it running all you need to do is set your router DNS settings to your pihole IP address and presto! Ads and trackers are gone!
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Good concept but the WiFi latency and the processing speed would I'm sure slow down your browsing experience.
Cool though!
Running a pi-hole doesn't require much juice. It's a fancy DNS server, not a router. First gen raspberry pis were pretty weak and even those things didn't even break a sweat.
Another person who doesn't know what they are talking about
For home use, they barely do much. At an enterprise level, then it's another story.
You try browsing with 50ms average pin to a dns server where a website loads thousands of objects :(
I believe you can do Ethernet over USB c on some devices.
Oh for sure. I think this is for a very niche user base: People who know about PiHole but don't have a pi/linux box but do have an old Android phone. It's definitely a strange but cool project.
I haven't seen any notable issues yet, a lot of people use a wireless pi zero to do the same thing so as long as you aren't running a state of the art gaming rig (which i'm not) I think it'll be fine
Your client hardware wouldn't matter tho. State of the art or whatnot of a gaming rig would be fairly low. In sure most modern mobile phones create more DNS requests these days compared to a Windows machine and steam. It's the configured software on the hosts that will dictate how much traffic your devices will get. A lot also cache by listening to the TTL. There will be some form of additional latency but your average Joe won't probably notice.
Oh I see well I could say I'm an average Joe lol
I'm not sure about that. The average consumer router is fairly underpowered but is still capable of handling the needs of most home networks.
Wifi adds latency. Adding 30-300 ms of latency will noticeably affect your browsing experience.
Exactly, I'm being down voted for two comments which are wrong, meh.
Probably worth it to remove ads and trackers thogh
I don't think you know about what you're talking about mate