On 10/12/21 7:22 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
My only complaint, is that I haven’t been terribly impressed with its
ability to filter unwanted sites. Probably need to just play with it
more, but it hasn’t been very intuitive to setup.
Yeah, but filtering is getting harder to do anyway with everyone going
to SSL. The only filtering that works these days is purely DNS
filtering, which can be done with your own DNS server, or with a service
like OpenDNS. Definitely something I'll explore as if this works out
well, I'll be deploying a similar network for my house and yard.
This has been a thorn in my side as well. When we first went into lock
down, my kids were constantly watching irrelevant (and annoying) youtube
videos. That's when I decided it was time to look into my Ubiquiti
router's content filtering/classification and QoS abilities.
After some time playing with it, I wasn't real impressed. The class
categories are pretty static, and seem to be driven by lists of IP
addresses/networks, with no content inspection. I've heard the USG is a
little better, but yeah, encryption has made content inspection much
harder too.
I then pivoted to just QoS-ing my kid's Chromebooks to non-streamable
bitrates (14.4kbps, 28.8kbps, even 256kbps). That just broke all of the
school's required web apps (including Google Docs and Gmail). I
wouldn't think those systems would require such a high bandwidth, but
apparently web apps are not as network efficient as I expected.
;-Daniel
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