Is there any negative to using a Pi Hole? Ie speed reduction.
#pihole #raspberrypi
I updated #Untappd and now there’s a giant ad right under my checkin. This is a new thing and it’s ugly AF.
@vozoto
When I started using pi-hole, I actually got a slight speed increase on my network. And a further increase when I added unbound to do all of my own DNS resolution.
The only way you might get a speed reduction is if you use your pi-hole as DHCP server as well.
If you are seeing ads where you previously were not, they're probably coming from a domain that's not on your block lists. I can give you some list recs if you need, as can @opie .
@voltronic @vozoto @opie Same. I use the Home Assistant Ad Guard plugin -- same concept. Don't know if the lists are compatico.
yeah...filtering out crapola should lead to speed increase, not decrease...if you go to a website that wants to load 80 elements, 20 of which get sent to dev null...you only have to load the remaining 60... 📈
volt...not sure what you mean by the PiHole doing DHCP reduces performance...DHCP takes like zero resources on the server, and how a host gets its IP has no impact on performance once that IP is assigned... 🤔
the downside to filtering is breaking shit... 😁
interesting...seems dubious to me, but perhaps...
@opie
I know, it doesn't make sense because no actual traffic should be going through the pi. But I've just been searching and finding some posts from users who have degraded performance when using the pi-hole for DHCP. No clear explanation.
It seems many people who choose this option do so because they own crappy routers with limited DHCP options. I can't speak to that - I have been running DD-WRT on all my routers almost exclusively for the past 15 years or so.
@voltronic this Untappd issue must just be an update to their app and it annoyed me as it’s pretty obtrusive (they have ads every 5 checkins or so, but this has made me decide that I need to block this crap)