# Will Pi-hole slow down my network?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/will-pi-hole-slow-down-my-network/2048>\
**Category:** FAQs\
**Created:** [March 6, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/will-pi-hole-slow-down-my-network/2048 "2017-03-06T05:23:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/will-pi-hole-slow-down-my-network/2048/1 "2017-03-06T05:23:33Z")

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No.

In _fact_, it can usually make your network **faster** for the following reasons:

- advertisement assets (images/video) are **not downloaded**
- DNS queries are **cached**
- **only DNS traffic** (port 53) **passes through** Pi-hole

The last bullet in that list is important, because unlike a proxy server, Pi-hole only handles the DNS queries, which are relatively small. Even on a 100Mb network card, Pi-hole can handle a lot of clients at once. The most we have heard of is 250 clients on a Raspberry Pi 2B.