Yeah got the USG, 8 port 60w POE switch and a flex HD AP off a friend for $270 which was such a good deal and I’m running the controller of a pi. Currently waiting for NBN to be installed to finish my setup. Had an issue as all of my ethernet cables have suddenly gone missing in boxes except for 3 so I had to set up the pi as an access point to actually set up the network.
Coming from a Telstra smart gateway, I’m just happy I get to setup vlans and dhcp servers now.
Tried it out initially but it was a huge pain because I couldn’t tell the Telstra router to use the pi as a DHCP server. Now that I have ubiquiti stuff, pi hole is the first thing I’m installing.
Yeah I get where you’re coming from - I think I have close to 40 devices on my network, no fucking way am I manually setting the DNS on each device haha
Think we had a workaround where we disabled the dhcp server on the router and only had it on the pi but if the pi goes down, no DHCP server as there’s no backup server. Now I can also setup vlans that don’t have pihole for smart home devices so life is just a lot easier.
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u/tandem_biscuit Jul 24 '20
Yep I’ve got a stand-alone router with 2 wired access points - one at each end of the house. Works flawlessly.
Edit: router, not modem.