Hi, I'm a beginner and I want to set up pi-hole on my home wifi but have a few concerns, my main concern is that the laptop that I will run pi-hole has an old wifi card and I dont know if this would restrict or slow down my wifi speed?
Even something as old as Wi-Fi standard 802.11g (Wi-Fi 3) supports bandwidth up to 54 Mbps. Your limitation will not be with network speed, but there are other factors that can impact performance.
Latency may be higher on older hardware, and that's due to a number of factors. Your router and Wi-Fi AP are likely to be the biggest limitation if it is old.
What kind of specs are on the laptop? And laptops aren't great for running 24/7 services because of heat output and power requirements, especially if it's as old as you seem to make it.
With Pi-hole v6, it is much more efficient and can help versus v5.x
I have a 2012 macbook air running ubuntu linux,it has 24/7 power but it's quite far from my router. I sadly cannot do ethernet since it does not have an ethernet port and the only usb adapter that I could find only supports 100 Mbps's but I'm planning to use it on a gigabit network.
These are my network speeds from the terminal speedtest
Download: 5.09 Mbit/s
Upload: 20.19 Mbit/s
The WiFi or LAN speed on your Mac is of no consquence for Pi-hole. DNS queries are very low bandwidth (a few hundred bytes per query) and none of the data traffic on the LAN goes through Pi-hole.
A serial port would likely be fast enough for DNS purposes.
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Oh got it, another question that I have is that my laptop is connected to a range extender with a diffrent ssid than my home network. If i set up pi hole on the laptop would I get ad blocker in the main wifi or only on the extenders wifi.
In most networks, you will only get Pi-hole access on the SSID that the Pi-hole is running on. But, it varies by network.
Why is the extender on a different SSID?
It’s on a different ssid because I did not want everyone in the home network connecting to the extenders network automatically. But is it makes a difference i can connect to the mac unit putty from the home network
I just set pi hole up and currently my mac is running a 3d printer server called klipper and pi hole, when I enter the 192.168.1.182 ip it automatically shows me klipper and it cannot reach pi.hole/admin:80 Whatsoever. how could I make pi hole use a different ip adress or use it from pi.hole
Unless 'pi.hole' is set as a hostname for your computer's IP address, it won't resolve. The way you can find out for sure is if you can access the Pihole interface via '192.168.1.182:80'.
How exactly is Pihole installed?
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