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Is there much performance difference in ad blocking options?
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Most self hosted DNS level blocking will be very fast as it is really easy to keep the block list in RAM. I hosted Pi Hole on RPi 3 and an over provisioned VM (4 cores and 4GB of ram lol). The only difference I’ve noticed is whether or not the device is hardwired. When my RPi was hardwired into the network, there was no notable difference between the two.
Firstly, I absolutely agree you should be hardwiring any kind of infrastructure. But honestly, even over WiFi your main latency is going to come from the WAN hop to whatever upstream DNS you’ve configured.
This is more or less what I was hoping would be the case. I'll be pulling down some of the drywall to run Ethernet beween floors so I won't need to worry about wireless being slower at least. I figure I'll just try the other blocking options and go with the one I find most pleasant.