I honestly don’t know much about Microtik’s RouterOS but in a few occasions I had I realised it is way too complicated for home user and their OS is not FOSS and needs payed license too. I’m sure it’s great once you get the hang of it but it’s unnecessary pain when there is OpenWRT available with a lot of devices you can choose not just one specific manufacturer

Well explained. I get it now

I have port forwarding setup on my devices (Google WiFi running OpenWRT). I can connect to most piers on qbitorrent. My only limit seems to be my bandwidth Which is what we want.

Damn I’m sold next step I gonna look into them

Thanks I had no idea that sounds great. I looked online they’re devices are not available at all where I live but that’s may not be the case for other.

As a matter of fact I heard about them but I don’t know much about OPNSense. Do they support devices other than ones they sell? They seem to be rather about professional environment not home network am right?

That’s interesting like which devices? Could you elaborate

You’re welcome. Sorry I didn’t named some specific devices but that’s because device availability and price changes drastically region to region so something maybe a great deal where I live but that may not be the case for you or the other way around.that said Xiaomi and some Hauwei maybe tp-link devices are the best bang for the buck in my corner of the world look into those maybe that’s the case for you too. Also Here is the new version of the table of hardware with more details

Sorry I don’t know much about DD-WRT to be honest. I myself have a Google WiFi mesh pack of three devices which I bought second hand for about 30$. They are excellent value in my opinion so maybe look into that if you’re interested

It comes down to specs and your needs but these are a must in my opinion:

1. having atleast 128 mb of storage or some way to expand it.
2. 256 mb of memory or more
3. suppot WiFi 6 or better 6E or 7
4. Support for mesh protocols if you need it
5. Decent multi core chipset if you gonna run intensive tasks on it (like VPNs or DNS filtering) etc… the list goes on but like I said It really comes down to your needs ( on a side note consider read the details and installation guide page before buying some brands and models are easier than others to tinker with for sure)

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OK thanks I’ll try to connect to asian countries servers from now on for YouTube

Windscribe Supports port-forwarding and they rank pretty well in privacy regards too but they are certainly rank a tier lower than IVPN and Mullvad. Guess it comes down to your priorities here

You’re right. Clipious and FreeTube and LibreTube all have both of them but they don’t have a solution for “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” error which comes up a lot when you use a VPN. only third party client that fixed this for me was grayjay with passing auth cookies (yes you have to sign in for the cookies unfortunately)

Thanks I checked it it has SponsorBlock but not DeArrow

You mean brave NewPipe?

Thanks Sounds good but I can’t access YouTube without a VPN so I’m gonna get the “login to confirm you’re not a bot” error the second I open YT on web

Public Invidious instances are kinda Dead at the moment

Yeah someone else suggested that too I installed it again and to my surprise it works for now but I’m sure I tried the local extraction the last time too anyways thanks gonna test it for a few days with multiple VPN servers to see if it really passes Edit: it still doesn’t work with some VPN servers “confirm you’re not a bot” error

Because It’s modded official YT app with probably a lot of telemetry and phoning home in background

Thanks but How can it solve “confirm you’re not a bot” error without a logged in cookies?

Yeah who cares as long as they have it. But that’s why I think they probably don’t have any plans to add DeArrow to their official YT plugin

Yeah sometimes it doesn’t work for me too but I think that’s because I use a VPN

There were some preset piped instances in it I tried some of them. I have to mention that I use a VPN to access YouTube and maybe that is my problem but I have to use a VPN since YouTube access is restricted where I live

Yeah I know I tried this one recently too but with recent YouTube restrictions It doesn’t work for me anymore

wow just what I was looking for and it’s abandoned

I meant their android port I use their desktop app that’s great

I have literally tried all of the YouTube Frontends I can find and grayjay is the most reliable of them all in my opinion but their YT plugin doesn’t support DeArrow. It seems like Louis Rossman doesn’t like these tools as he repeatedly said on his channel He’s not a fan of neither the SponsorBlock and nor DeArrow and understandably so after all he is a content creator himself. I wish instead of making a bunch of useless yt frontends someone would fork their plugin but I understand maintaining it would be hard work with YouTube constantly changing things in background and subsequent upstream updates need to be merged so who am I to judge I guess

Yeah it’s the best YouTube Frontend for Android TV for sure

Yeah I have tried freetube android recently. It looked very alpha stage to me and lacking but promising

Try both Magic Earth and Organic Maps but none of them work flawlessly like Google Maps and you have to either give up on it or make concessions

Yeah I have been using yt ReVanced for years and you’re right it supports both dearrow and sponsorblock but recently I have gotten rid of all Google apps on my phone except yt ReVanced and microg and I’m looking to finish the job

Yes I found it(ac-1304 model) by chance. They have a Quadcore chip and 4GB Flash storage and 1 GB memory

I bought second hand Google mesh solution that is supported by OpenWRT latest release

Yeah I know open-vpn speeds are not gonna be pretty. I’ll try wireguard or AnyConnect configs on it. about the device yeah it’s a few years old but I can’t find new version here. I guess that’s what you expect when living in a third world country

Yeah like know open-vpn not gonna run well on it but wireguard is ok

Thanks. I know routerOS is pretty capable but I’m also aware it’s not noob friendly at all that’s why I want to flash OpenWRT on it. I’m not sure which one to buy, I found RB750GRE hex model for a good price and it’s supported by OpenWrt too but I’m not sure it can handle openvpn or not

OK I’ll look into them thanks

What are these and how does it change anything?

Thanks This looks like exactly what I need. Installation seems easy enough. How do I configure it afterwards?