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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 20 2020, @02:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-back-your-hardware dept.

Sorry Telstra but this is my F@ST 5355 router:

Roughly a week ago I decided to give https://pi-hole.net/ a go having endured yet another ad laden website. All went we'll[sic], installation was smooth and was up and running 15 minutes later.

All that remained was to set my routers(sic) DNS server to the pi's and my home devices would be safe. I remember seeing the option in there for it.

WTF, it was now disabled. A quick google around revealed that about a year ago (June 2017) Telstra simply decided to remove that functionality.

Surely it had nothing to do with the Australian government implementing DNS based censorship in June 2017?

So fuck you Telstra, that's my router you made me purchase. Time to find out how to take it back.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Oakenshield on Monday July 20 2020, @03:48PM (2 children)

    by Oakenshield (4900) on Monday July 20 2020, @03:48PM (#1024143)

    My provider charges monthly for their approved modem-router combo but gives the plain vanilla modem for free. I chose the latter. Looking at SSIDs that show up around my home it would appear I am in the minority. I set up PFsense for my router and have a Engenius access point for Wifi and a DD-WRT access point for IoT. There is no external port access to my LAN and my IoT network is totally isolated from the rest.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday July 20 2020, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday July 20 2020, @08:37PM (#1024255)

    I also use pfSense, on a PC Engines box I put together myself.

    My ISP does not care what I run at home. Actually, I am surprised to realise that I don't hate my ISP.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:54PM (#1024571)

      Another PFSense user here. I own my cable modem, but my ISP retains control over updates and some config. My PFSense router is mine, with zero access given to the ISP. I then have an Access Point for wifi. In total I have 3 separate networks, wired, wireless, and one dedicated to a VOIP set up.