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anyone running orange pi with openwrt and pi hole?

01 November 2023, 00:48:57

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BCJT3S2N/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_8?smid=APISWSAHKR1AT&th=1

this is def a thing but is it a good thing?  60$ seems legit for an openwrt router running pihole but how does it compare to actual openwrt routers running pihole?  reading the decription it says its a soft router?


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    Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS (soft routing) adopts Rockchip RK3328 64-bit 1.5GHZ high-performance quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, 1GB LPDDR3 running memory, integrated dual Gigabit network interface, USB2.0 interface, TF card slot slot, Type-C power supply, power management, 16MB SPI FLASH onboard storage, debugging serial port, etc.
    Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS Mini PC Computer is a dual Gigabit Ethernet port soft router, one is onboard and the other is transferred by USB. Small in size, it supports OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Debian and other operating systems.
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Re: anyone running orange pi with openwrt and pi hole?

Reply #1 – 01 November 2023, 10:05:51

You better ask on the openwrt forum, it might be good or it might be overpriced, there are many 2 NIC devices out there with good support.

Re: anyone running orange pi with openwrt and pi hole?

Reply #2 – 01 November 2023, 18:34:59

well ok.  i thought i'd ask in case someone had experience here.  def wanting an inexpensive by effective router with openwrt and pihole.  may need to wait longer i guess.

Re: anyone running orange pi with openwrt and pi hole?

Reply #3 – 01 November 2023, 21:35:53

I use openwrt but on a router, i kinda plan changing it too but know nothing about what proper hardware to get now, apart from this mainstream wifi6 stuff which is too overkill but at least has enough memory.
What i know is the software bit, that i can help you with

Re: anyone running orange pi with openwrt and pi hole?

Reply #4 – 02 November 2023, 05:09:31

my isp d/c me from the internet.  not sure what the issue was.  had to call in they couldn't find the problem but it came back on while i was talking to them about how they though my 150 mbps cable internet was very low?  very low for what?  for 2 rokus and a pc?  most of the time it's at least 2x more than what i need.  when i run updates i appreciate the faster speed. but for videos and email and shopping?  wifi6 is faster than i'll ever need with my current plan but i do have that wifi6/bt5.???hat i will never fully use.