If you can replace it do it. If that’s not an option them harden it as much as you can in setting

Congrats. It’s definitely a nice device for 89$ and you support the project at the same time. Unfortunately it’s not available here.

I honestly don’t know much about Microtik’s RouterOS but in a few occasions I had I realised it is way too complicated for home user and their OS is not FOSS and needs payed license too. I’m sure it’s great once you get the hang of it but it’s unnecessary pain when there is OpenWRT available with a lot of devices you can choose not just one specific manufacturer

Well explained. I get it now

I have port forwarding setup on my devices (Google WiFi running OpenWRT). I can connect to most piers on qbitorrent. My only limit seems to be my bandwidth Which is what we want.

Damn I’m sold next step I gonna look into them

Thanks I had no idea that sounds great. I looked online they’re devices are not available at all where I live but that’s may not be the case for other.

As a matter of fact I heard about them but I don’t know much about OPNSense. Do they support devices other than ones they sell? They seem to be rather about professional environment not home network am right?

That’s interesting like which devices? Could you elaborate

You’re welcome. Sorry I didn’t named some specific devices but that’s because device availability and price changes drastically region to region so something maybe a great deal where I live but that may not be the case for you or the other way around.that said Xiaomi and some Hauwei maybe tp-link devices are the best bang for the buck in my corner of the world look into those maybe that’s the case for you too. Also Here is the new version of the table of hardware with more details

Sorry I don’t know much about DD-WRT to be honest. I myself have a Google WiFi mesh pack of three devices which I bought second hand for about 30$. They are excellent value in my opinion so maybe look into that if you’re interested

It comes down to specs and your needs but these are a must in my opinion:

1. having atleast 128 mb of storage or some way to expand it.
2. 256 mb of memory or more
3. suppot WiFi 6 or better 6E or 7
4. Support for mesh protocols if you need it
5. Decent multi core chipset if you gonna run intensive tasks on it (like VPNs or DNS filtering) etc… the list goes on but like I said It really comes down to your needs ( on a side note consider read the details and installation guide page before buying some brands and models are easier than others to tinker with for sure)

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OK thanks I’ll try to connect to asian countries servers from now on for YouTube

Windscribe Supports port-forwarding and they rank pretty well in privacy regards too but they are certainly rank a tier lower than IVPN and Mullvad. Guess it comes down to your priorities here

You’re right. Clipious and FreeTube and LibreTube all have both of them but they don’t have a solution for “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” error which comes up a lot when you use a VPN. only third party client that fixed this for me was grayjay with passing auth cookies (yes you have to sign in for the cookies unfortunately)

Thanks I checked it it has SponsorBlock but not DeArrow

You mean brave NewPipe?

Thanks Sounds good but I can’t access YouTube without a VPN so I’m gonna get the “login to confirm you’re not a bot” error the second I open YT on web

Public Invidious instances are kinda Dead at the moment