>> Thanks, I'd never heard of it. It could be a bit beyond me but I'll
>> see if I can figure it out.
Well I won't talk through it much here, as it might be major thread drift, but if you do decide to go ahead, Manatee, we could put another thread in computing.
it's a "just follow the instructions" mostly, and there's loads on the web of varying length, but:
You need to be able, on your specific broadband router, to edit the place it looks for DNS queries, (and change it to your new Pi's address because it's going to handle those)
Optionally turn off the router's DHCP server, (because the Pi can advertise itself as the new DHCP server for your network), although even this isn't actually vital.
Find out the IP address of the newly installed Raspberry Pi (to tell the router what the Pi IP address is on your network), either from the Pi itself after installing, or from the router if it shows attached devices.
On my Virgin router, you can get into the web interface for it easily, the settings password for that is printed on the box. Those three things are displayed easily in "advanced" and changed trivially, so it all went smoothly.
If you can't find that stuff in the router, or your router won't let you, forget it unless you want to get heavy with it. So check and understand how to do those things before embarking I'd suggest.
After that it's buy/repurpose a Pi, install the right OS on it (easy as buttons), install Pihole (free and as easy as buttons), turn it on, make the changes above in your router, restart all network devices, done.
If it all goes wrong and your network breaks, just undo what you did on the router, or at worst, factory reset it and try again.
And if all/some of that is just gobbledygook, suggest you live with ads!
Last edited by: Crankcase on Fri 19 Mar 21 at 09:06
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