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This New Device is 10x Better Than Your Router

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  • description: Scammers have AI now, and even the router we build in this video can't stop the scam text that walks straight up to your phone. Bitdefender Scam Radar gives you a heads-up when a scam wave hits your area: https://bitdefend.me/90NetworkChuck The government just banned your home router. Chinese state hackers were living inside consumer routers, so the FCC banned future foreign-made ones. And honestly? Your router was already slow, insecure, and boring. So in this video we replace my editor Mike's router (and yours) with OPNsense: a free, open source router and firewall running on a cheap mini PC. Whole-house ad blocking, encrypted DNS, a real firewall you control. Then I hand the whole thing to an AI agent (Hermes on a Raspberry Pi) to see if it can manage the router for us. Its first job: block an entire country. 🎓 Want to go DEEPER? VLANs, firewall rules, GeoIP country blocking, Suricata IDS, and the hardened version of the AI agent are all in my OPNsense course on NetworkChuck Academy: https://ntck.co/NCAcademy RESOURCES / LINKS: 🛠️ Download OPNsense: https://opnsense.org/download/ 🛠️ balenaEtcher (flash your USB): https://etcher.balena.io/ 📖 The Realtek NIC driver fix (full written tutorial): https://blog.networkchuck.com 🧪 Test your ad blocking: https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html 📺 Set up your own AI agent (Hermes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQEgIo4Juxg 📺 What is DNS?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiQTs9DbtW4 📺 The original (6 years ago): your home router SUCKS!!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzSsX4T4WQ HARDWARE (the recommended devices I promised): 🖥️ Skip the driver headache (Intel i226 NICs): CWWK N100 4-port: https://www.amazon.com/CWWK-PC-4-core-N100-Fanless/dp/B0C1TWLHXK 🖥️ The exact mini PC in this video (Getorli Ryzen 3 5300U, Realtek NICs): https://www.amazon.com/Getorli-Display-Support-Computer-Business/dp/B0GHV7W7F6 🖥️ US-vendor appliance option: Protectli VP2430: https://protectli.com/product/vp2430/ 🔀 Managed switch (for VLANs in part 2): MikroTik CRS310: https://www.amazon.com/MikroTik-CRS310-8G-2S-IN-in/dp/B0CH9NHFHS 📡 Wireless access point: UniFi U7 Pro: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/u7-pro TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - The government banned your router (here's the plan) 1:10 - Why you should build your own router 1:50 - The hardware: what can run OPNsense 4:04 - The Bitdefender Scam Forecast (Sponsor) 6:13 - Double NAT vs bridge mode: how to connect it 7:39 - Installing OPNsense (flash the USB, boot, install) 10:42 - No interfaces?? The Realtek NIC fix 12:40 - First login: your new router is ALIVE 13:22 - The setup wizard + secure DNS (DNSSEC, DNS over TLS) 16:12 - Whole-house ad blocking with DNS blocklists 17:38 - An AI agent takes over my router (Hermes) 20:08 - AI blocks an entire country 20:51 - What's next for Mike's network (part 2) 21:18 - A prayer for you Starring my editors: Mike (the news anchor) and Austin (your Scam Meteorologist). **Sponsored by @Bitdefender SUPPORT NETWORKCHUCK: ☕☕ COFFEE and MERCH: https://ntck.co/coffee READY TO LEARN?? 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: https://ntck.co/NCAcademy 📚 CCNA Course: https://ntck.co/ccna FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/networkchuck/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/networkchuck Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetworkChuck/ Join the Discord server: https://ntck.co/discord Some links in this description are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. #sponsored #opnsense #bitdefender #networkchuck
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