Pi-hole? Huh? DNS? What I am going on about now you may ask. Pi-hole is billed as a “Network-wide Ad Blocking,” a black hole for Internet Advertisements. While it is that, it can be much much more – I can also help you secure your network to some extent.

For me, I am using it to help filter out some advertisements, but also using it to block tracking websites, known malware sites, as well as tracking what my internal clients are talking to.

Want to know how effective a tool like Pi-hole can be, let’s look at the 24-hour stats for my home network below. Keep in mind that there are 5 of us here, I work from home, and we stream everything on Rokus.