“My pfSense firewall finally gave up the ghost after years of faithful service.
I bypassed the dud box, connected everything straight to my BT hub and discovered that the new BT hub is actually a pretty effective firewall. I was missing the ad-blocking capabilities of pfBlocker so, after reading a few reviews, I plumped for a Pi-Hole. (I figured it would tide me over until I could source another pfSense box).
The Pi-Hole kit arrived promptly (next day, in fact) and, after assembly and set-up (about 20 minutes!) I had it blocking all of the ads and sites that pfBlocker had been blocking.
All for a fraction of the cost of a new firewall.
This was my first experience of any Raspberry Pi product but I suspect I'll be buying more in future (a music streamer looks like a fun project).”
“The pre-loaded OS and Pi Hole software made setting up the product a breeze. In the future I will consider adding a VPN or other security assets to the little guy just to further protect my home network. Kudos to you guys for this ready to use product!”
“It works, but frankly it's just a collection of bit and not really a kit. There are no instructions. A ready programmed card would have been nice so I didn't have to connect a keyboard, mouse and screen just to set it up so I could piconnect to control it from my PC. I'm a bit dubious about the "heat sinking" sticker that connects the board to the aluminium box. It seems a bit thick to conduct heat when you're used to thermal compound.
Oh and where is the pretty case sticker supposed to go.”
“Really simple to step up following the instructions on the raspberry pi website. Excellent support when I had a hardware problem too so overall great product and great experience. Unfortunately my router doesn't allow the pi-hole to be set as DNS server or DHCP provider so I manually point devices to the pi-hole. As a layman I don't know the real performance difference if any in these but if too much hastle maybe check if your router allows the first two options before purchase”
“exceptional product, packaging, price and service. couldn't find better for the solution i was looking for. thanks again!
be careful with the power supply if you order in europe, it is different.”
