Bologna? No, it got stuck in my spam folder!

1 year, 3 months, 25 days

wow, seems like just yesterday. This router has been serving me well, never had to reboot it except for power outages and firmware updates.
Last week I updated to OpenWRT 15.05 "Chaos Calmer" and it was a smooth upgrade
  _______                     ________        __
 |       |.-----.-----.-----.|  |  |  |.----.|  |_
 |   -   ||  _  |  -__|     ||  |  |  ||   _||   _|
 |_______||   __|_____|__|__||________||__|  |____|
          |__| W I R E L E S S   F R E E D O M
 -----------------------------------------------------
 CHAOS CALMER (15.05, r46767)
 -----------------------------------------------------
  * 1 1/2 oz Gin            Shake with a glassful
  * 1/4 oz Triple Sec       of broken ice and pour
  * 3/4 oz Lime Juice       unstrained into a goblet.
  * 1 1/2 oz Orange Juice
  * 1 tsp. Grenadine Syrup
 -----------------------------------------------------

Soon I will want to upgrade though, probably to a TP Link Archer C7  (Wirecutter's top pick) or similar
See you next blog!

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also watch this clueless loser attempt to build a router pt 2 #funny

A Person From Village Has Written It Beautifully

Nasle

Special New Year's Eev BLOG Update

You guys probably know I've been abusing this xfinitywifi hotspot to get free internet, but manually changing your MAC address every hour is such a PITA!! Wouldn't it be better if my router did it for me???
Here's how it works (I think):


My router is connected to the hotspot in CLIENT mode and also hosting its own AP

A script runs every hour via cron
0 * * * * /usr/sbin/changemac

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                                               
set -e                                                                                                                                                                 
NEWMAC=E8:94:F6$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=3 2>/dev/null | hexdump -v -e '/1 ":%02X"')                                                                             
echo "Changing MAC address to $NEWMAC"                                                                                                                                 
sed -i -e "s/macaddr.*$/macaddr '$NEWMAC'/" /etc/config/wireless                                                                                                       
/sbin/wifi reload                                     
NOTE: first part of MAC  is hardcoded because the script was generating invalid MAC addresses or something stupid and my router would stop working

This is very sick and works very tight! Thanks Cumcast for putting a hotspot in everyone's house without their permission!!

Now just waiting for someone to make a fake hotspot to own me but until that day this is very WINNER !

I have no idea WTF I just read but I'm happy for you steev!

it's ok guys i'm probably explaining it wrong because i don't really understand networking even though i want to so badly!

thats pretty cool
smart work, steev

Basically, Steev is very good at getting free internet at home

I understood it.  Good thinking steev-kun.

Blog update #69: Shut your pi-hole

Last night I moved adblocking from my router to a Raspberry Pi server. This is decent solution for me since my router doesn't have enough storage for a large hosts file. Previously I worked around that by storing my hosts file in RAM, but that got annoying because I'd have to redownload it every time the router got unplugged. So now I'm using Pi-Hole, which is a script that turns your Raspberry Pi into an adblocking DNS server/forwarder. Simply tell your router to send all DNS queries to your Pi-Hole, and you get adblocking for the entire network. It also includes a nice web app that gives you a bunch of statistics. Pi-Hole was put together by some college student. Very nice

One thing to note:
If you're stealing wifi from an xfinity hotspot, you can't use Google/OpenDNS as your forwarding DNS server. They appear to be blocked
Use Cuckcast's DNS servers instead: 75.75.75.75, 75.75.76.76