t3ra
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Alongside probably whitelisting :
Most speed test sites hit the ISP cache or peered traffic and hence are much faster.
you can inspect fast.com and see this in action: It will show up something like "ipv4-c209-sea001-ix.1.oca.nflxvideo.net" Which is their openconnect [1] location in Seattle IX.
In many cases you will probably see a prefix indicating your ISP - Most ISPs with some scale host their own caches or peer with an internet exchange directly.
Incase of speedtest - its the same story most ISPs host servers locally and speedtest's website generally tests from it
Most of my ISP screw ups are involve content which isnt cached and its difficult to convey that when your netflix is able to stream 4K content easily but struggling to download a 100mb file of some AWS region :/
I sometimes use proof.ovh.net and ping.online.net to test using iperf also ec2-reachability.amazonaws.com helps debug if ISP is having issues with connecting to AWS (more open than not thats the case with mine)
--- [1] https://openconnect.netflix.com
Comment · 5 years ago
Similar guide for HP LaserJet 1020 which needed some additional steps because of driver compatibility - https://tripad.medium.com/turning-my-old-printer-into-a-wire...
Apart from some USB port selection issues there has been pretty much no problems running this for over a year
Comment · 7 years ago
https://read2me.online
Another similar service
Comment · 8 years ago
Explains my confusion with early internet "cliparts" and icons being always in yellow. I am sure most non westerns might be equally confused.
Pencil meant black and red for us in India - Natraj FTW
Comment · 8 years ago
Oh IT cell actually reads tech news?
Comment · 8 years ago
Firebog.net has curated lists
Comment · 8 years ago
It's my home network, there are devices you can count on your finger.
Also DHCP lease times by default are in multiple hours on home routers so IPs don't often change.
also the web Interface shows hostnames
Comment · 8 years ago
So this happened after a posted this comment (weird coincidence :/)
My pi hole graph started to look like - https://imgur.com/a/Jj8bmPW
NVIDIA geforce experience really wants to talk to the mothership :| Ended up uninstalling it
Comment · 8 years ago
I use lists curate by firebog
https://firebog.net/
Comment · 8 years ago
+1 The API support this too
Comment · 8 years ago
I use the web interface and filter it with the IP address of the device. It will usually show up in the top of the list and try whitelisting.
Example my Samsung TV took some effort : multiple domains were blocked and had to restart my TV everytime, thankfully PiHole has a neat responsive web interface. After allowing 2 domains it started to work or else it wouldnt go online.
Comment · 8 years ago
I am actively using PiHole in my home network with over 8 devices doing around ~30k requests per day. Some highlights:
* By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)
* I have 650,000+ in my domain blacklist and folks complaining about "it doesnt work on pihole" just have taken that tiny bit of error to unblock some domains like "ssl.googleanalytics.com" which break a lot apps. It took me about 1 day to see what isnt working (ex Facebook app break if graph.facebook.com is blocked)
* On avg 28% of my requests are blocked and 42% are cached. I am quite sure generally my surfing experience is snappier
-- Things like learn running PiHole :
How prevalent tracking really is across the web. A lot of apps dont go "online" if google analytics is blocked (example Toggl)
Manufacturers like Xiaomi are spamming the network with requests - mostly for notification spam
How amazingly scalable, stable RPi+PiHole is - we ran a workshop with 150+ DHCP leases and nearly a few 100k DNS requests without a glitch. Pi didnt even heat up a bit
SmartTV are freaking noisy. Samsung TV makes ~300 DNS requests in <5 min of startup. Literally every button press in the "smart home" is tracked
- Wireguard
- Openspeedtest https://openspeedtest.com/ as a container to test random wifi speed issues
- CUPS
Experiments: - qbt for seedings ISOs