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Just found this. Looks really good and might mean I could use my Raspberry Pi for other things.

Edit: Open source Pi-Hole alternative that runs on Flint series routers.
 
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Toob 2300mb upgrade booked for next month. Need to buy a £60 2.5Gb switch to make the most of it, but fell down a rabbit hole and now looking at spending £500+ on a Flint 4 for downstairs and a Flint 3 for upstairs...

Typical!
 
RedMogg said:
Toob 2300mb upgrade booked for next month. Need to buy a £60 2.5Gb switch to make the most of it, but fell down a rabbit hole and now looking at spending £500+ on a Flint 4 for downstairs and a Flint 3 for upstairs...

Typical!
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To be fair the Flint 4 is a really solid bit of hardware. I'm very pleased with my purchase. Having said that it is expensive so you might want to do some research into cheaper options.
 
Cromulent said:
To be fair the Flint 4 is a really solid bit of hardware. I'm very pleased with my purchase. Having said that it is expensive so you might want to do some research into cheaper options.
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I did - a £60 Yuanley 2.5Gb switch will give me 90% of what I'm aiming for...
 
Expensive yeah maybe
But to be fair It's a lot of hardware
If it was another company with ROG on it
Bet it would cost more

Already seen 10% and 15% discount
Pretty hopeful black Friday will
Beat that discount
 
I've been tempted by it but it's just a bit too rich for my use case at the moment.

If my EE WiFi 7 router decides to gimp itself again by switching to channels with much poorer throughput then I may bite.
 
I'm glad I got it as I won't have internet for a couple of weeks so using USB tethering on it to hook my phone up is going to be really useful.
 
Ayahuasca said:
That's handy, but there are also far cheaper devices that would have done that for you for a couple of weeks.
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True there are cheaper options out there but I've managed to decommission a raspberry pi that was running PiHole with Adguard which is included on the router itself so that is also a nice little perk. Also the Wifi is better than my old router.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Ah sorry, I may be late is it a managed switch ?
I got a cheap sodola one which is managed so can set up vlans and get get the ont plugged directly to it
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I'm too ignorant of networking stuff to buy anything other than unmanaged. I suspect much of the Flint's capabilities will be wasted on me, but I'm looking forward to exploring. I also have a lifetime Windscribe Pro VPN account, which I understand will work well with the router.
 
I keep being tempted by the Flint 4. But my Flint 2 still does everything I need. As someone above mentioned, it's probably more beneficial to spend the money on a wifi 7 mesh system. But I'll be keeping an eye on Black Friday prices.
 
4.11 b4 is now available. Interesting 4.11 b1 is available for the Slate 7 Pro so I’m going to try and build an Ethernet backhauled mesh tonight and see how good it is.
 
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