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The manual describes connecting a PC directly to the modem and connecting to 192.168.100.1. I'll do that when the family isn't around and see what I can see.

I've been having weird DNS issues even with the Ubiquity router. In frustration I disconnected and reconnected my modem....and suddenly things started working well, including being able to see that my DNS servers are set to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 which is what I have manually...

For my wife (light office work, some Photoshop) I recently went with a low end laptop with a USB3 docking station and she’s happy to have a new PC that she can also move around the house or take on vacation. Open box at Best Buy for $800.

Got a Unify Ubiquity router....the comparison to Apple is spot on. Nice out of the box experience, pretty much just plug-n-play. Defaults just work. We'll see if I get any complaints from the fam, but so far I'm impressed. Thank you for the tip, sedrosken! Now I just need to decide if it's worth...

Thanks, Merc and sendrosken. I'll go with Ubiquity and see how it goes. I appreciate the description of "Apple of Networking" as that is sortof the level I'm at. I'm happy to screw around with my Proxmox server and other bits, but my Truenas storage server and networking infrastructure just need...

Anyone have experience with the Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra? $130, so cheap enough that I could get two if I remain paranoid. Set up advertised to be easy (seems consistent with what I've seen in a business that uses their stuff).

The Asus devices certainly can do simple routing duty, and one of them did in the past for me. But then I get nervous trusting my whole network to a flimsy piece of plastic marketed to 13 year olds that also did Wifi, so I turned it into an access point only. I have not been excited to use...

I'm not sure how often my kids computers switch from wired to Wifi, and I'm not completely sure that's the issue. My youngest reported an issue yesterday, but I was at work and my on-site tech support person doesn't do computers. Reading through this thread again, I'm inclined to just reinstall...

So...got wife a laptop and she had the DNS issue when moving between Wifi and wired. Very low spousal approval factor. And my kids will occasionally have that issue for a brief time before it seems to self-resolve. Super frustrating. Makes me want to move away from pfSense. I love the concept of...

Indeed, work makes my computer add^^^^hobby challenging at times. Network hacking is particularly challenging since I do a lot of call from home and need a reliable internet connection so I can VPN into work.

When the family is away I'll probably play with it. Appreciate the encouragement and reference.

I probably just screwed up the implementation or couldn't figure out what to whitelist.

At one point I used pfBlockerNG, but family approval factor was low and I liked the pretty graphics that PiHole offered instead. Maybe I'll look again at pfBlockerNG. So far nobody is complaining about the lack of add blocking. Do you guys run an add blocker?

I run pfSense on a Netgate SG5100. I have a Truenas Scale server running Pihole as an app. Before that, I did run a PiHole on an actual Raspberry Pi but got nervous running a critical piece of hardware on such consumer gear. I can't say I ever did much with the data from PiHole, and I'm not...

In the morning all systems were working. Perhaps they just needed time to renew their DHCP leases? Time drift could have been an issue. At one point my son's clock was clearly off, and I manually adjusted it.