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No! A pi makes a terrible router, you need something with a bit more power. Flash openwrt onto a cheap wireless router you already have and use it as a dumb access point for an opnsense router.

I built mine out of an old fanless pc meant for running digital signage (usually super cheap on eBay). Has like 6 HDMI ports and 2 nics. You can get a computer with more nic ports if you want more vlans/isolated networks. But for most home uses, a 2 port setup works well. One for communicating with your ISP and one for communicating with your dumb OpenWRT access point.

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Good to know, hadn’t actually tried it myself

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You can throw a raspberry pi into the stack as a pihole if you want. I’ve done that for a long time. Especially of the dns filtering in opnsense is causing issues, or you just like the pihole interface.

Main reason to not use a pi is that they’re notoriously unreliable and a router needs to be pretty rock solid.

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Good tip, I haven’t really done much with a pi beyond an emulator box, but I remember trying to use it as a pc(lol) using Damn Small Linux and was constantly running into issues beyond just the speed limitations

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