Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • router modem combo devices and really cheap routers or access points.

    I’ve always thought that combo devices are probably good for the average, casual internet user, but not high end, extreme users. I want the best (within reason of course) delivery mechanism that I can get to route the signal from the street to my devices. It’s worth the extra $$ to me.


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    The firewalla is a heavily optimized amlogic based pi. it’s not special.

    Damn sure seems special. WOW! What features are/were you running on Opnsense?

    I looked for specs on the Firewalla Purple. However, to compare, I’m running pFsense on an Intel Celeron CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz/4 core/32gb RAM with pfblockerng, suricata, ntopng, and Tailscale, unbound, with customized and publicly available DNSBL lists.

    Load average 0.80, 0.51, 0.45

    As @frongt@lemmy.zip said, the more ‘things’ you have running, the more load, and 800 Mbps is about what I can do even with a gigabit connection and CAT6 pulled for every connection. If I were try to run huge generic block lists, I will start peeking, which is why I run mostly slimmed down, targeted, custom lists. When you stop and think about it, the amount of list checking, resolving, etc, it’s really pretty amazing.

    I tried a while back to see if I could better the 800 Mbps, but nothing produced any thing much higher than the standard 800 Mbps which frustrated me. I just finally accepted the fact that getting as close to a gigabit connection would be the best I could do with what I’ve got. Being the type of person I am, I was rather verklempt I couldn’t squeeze that extra 200 Mbps.





  • Not to crap all over your project OP, I think the idea is a good one. Maybe if we could have the choice of Telegram, or Slack, or some other service, or as @lelovsky@szmer.info said, just ssh in. Telegram is pretty neat and all, but I’ve never been convinced of it’s security. I did test it out once, and even though I only used it in the manner of which you are, to administrate containers, I got a lot of spam of the x-rated kind which are usually just scams.

    • great idea
    • might need some options







  • Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up.

    This is mainly for OP, but you mentioned Cloudflare. OP, if you decide to go with Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, I have some notes that might help jump start that process. They’ve seemed to help a few people set up Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, and I’d be happy to share them with you.