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    Router recommendation

    Hi Thanks a lot for all your answers and recommendations! VPN throughput is a very good hint, because I'm always using VPN to sync my devices with the NAS. (~ 100Mbps) Seems the RT-AC86U should be a good choice for me.
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    Router recommendation

    Hi I currently have a RT N66U with Merlin and it works very well since a long time. Now my network at home is growing and I would like to speed up some things. I'm using the Router for: 100m2 apartment 1x QNAP NAS for files, lots of pictures and 4k streaming and DLNA 1x Open VPN Server 1x...
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    adblocker with host file

    I tried to copy a hosts file to /jffs/configs/hosts after a reboot, the hosts file appears at /tmp/etc/hosts a traceroute from the router to some ad pages is now redirected to localhost but this does not have any effect to the connected devices, the communications to this addresses are...
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    adblocker with host file

    Thanks for your reply I agree with you, DNS servers are the easiest way to block ads. Unfortunately most of these servers provides ads them self or if an address is not found they route you to a search engine. A further problem is (as i know), that it's not possible to block ad-subdirectories...
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    adblocker with host file

    Hi Is there any tutorial, how to setup a hosts-file based ad blocker on a RT-N66U? I found a nice shell script, but perhaps there could be a better one? http://www.stum.de/2013/05/15/dont-use-adblock-in-your-browser-block-in-your-router-instead/ Thanks for our help Lukas
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