{"id":175,"date":"2020-04-01T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raucousatthecaucus.net\/?p=175"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:47:10","slug":"right-in-the-pi-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/right-in-the-pi-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Right in the Pi-Hole!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while back, several versions of this blog ago, I tried setting up a Pi-Hole<\/a> (pihole from now on) internet ad eater. The pihole set up was easy, but I had a big problem with internet speed. For some reason I couldn’t quite pin down, the pihole slowed my internet to a crawl. After some research, I think it had something to do with IPv6 traffic and pihole not being able to do anything with it. I could never find a solution to the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to all this virus stuff, I’ve been doing classes online and slowed down my business, so I have a lot more time at home. I decided to give the pihole another shot today after class. It went almost perfectly this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to use a Raspberry Pi Zero W for this project, but I may move it over to something with a wired network connection at some point. It took a little while to get everything installed and configured, but it was worth it. There are no ads anywhere; not on my phone or Pandora or streaming apps like Hulu. It didn’t slow the network to a crawl this time. In fact, it feels a bit faster than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only problem I encountered had a relatively easy solution. My initial setup, with my router working as the DHCP server and the pihole as DNS only, wouldn’t allow me to reach my own domain name, raucousatthecaucus.net. I had to disable DHCP on the router and let the pihole take care of it. I’d rather have the router do DHCP, but this gets the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m really pleased with the results. My local news websites no longer vomit ads all over me. I’ll have to print a case for the Pi when my new 3D printer comes in (hopefully in 10 days or so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, several versions of this blog ago, I tried setting up a Pi-Hole (pihole from now on) internet ad eater. The pihole set up was easy, but I had a big problem with internet speed. For some reason I couldn’t quite pin down, the pihole slowed my internet to a crawl. After some … Continue reading “Right in the Pi-Hole!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[34,127,135,149],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-ad-blocker","tag-no-ads","tag-pi-hole","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}