Comment by godelski

  > That's something people should run themselves. I run Adguard Home on my router. 

I'll second this. People should really be flashing their routers. OpenWRT is simple enough that if you're on HN I think you'll easily be able to do it. And like most routers, you set it up and forget it.

But you'll also get a bunch more benefits from OpenWRT, to make it worth your while.

  - I was able to buy a router for <$100 that was WiFi 7 capable (W1700K[0]) and had better hardware than most consumer routers. You can find plenty of cheaper routers that are flashable and more capable.
  - Adguard Home
  - Split tunneling/VLANs: Since we're talking Mullvad, you can put devices behind Mullvad on a VLAN. So activate Mullvad by changing SSIDs.
    - Trivial to put IOT devices on a VLAN (can make one directional too so you can access from your main network but they can't reach back. I throttle everything IOT)
  - Tailscale
  - QoS (Control the speed and prioritization of different connections)
  - It's a fucking computer, you can even run shell scripts

[0] You don't need something like this unless you're getting >1Gbps from your ISP. Big thing I wanted is the 2 10G ports.