Lightspeed internet: making the switch to Frontier Fiber

I’ve been a RoadRunner/Brighthouse/Spectrum cable internet customer since I moved to Florida back in 2001. In 2004, I commented about Verizon FIOS possibly coming into my area but in 2013 I was still waiting. Thirteen years later, Frontier finally laid fiber in my neighborhood late last year and started offering internet service starting at $30/mo for 500Mbps. My Spectrum …

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Escaping the Pi-Hole for NextDNS

I’ve been running a Pi-Hole ad blocker on my home network (and a remote family network) in one way or another (local install on a RasPi, Docker container on a NAS, etc.) for over 10 years! Of course it only worked when we were at home, so my family had started noticing how cluttered their …

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