Own Everything & Be Happy | DIY Router Guide

SPONSOR: Contribute to FULU Foundation's Consumer Rights Wiki https://geni.us/lAWAZ or join their Zulip server to take action! https://geni.us/jeEBB Find their bounties here: https://geni.us/Iyzy2n It's time to apply all the DIY PC spirit and desire for knowledge toward device ownership, decentralizing, and taking control back from companies. This guide is our first attempt at building DIY routers. We tried several big names, like OPNsense, OpenWrt, DD-WRT, pfSense, IPFire, RouterOS, and Tomato in our efforts to detach from ISPs and big brands that have proven untrustworthy with their routers, especially as privacy policies have expanded to claw deeper into your packet history than even necessary to provide internet functionality. This is part of our new series of self-ownership of devices like routers, NASes, VPNs, self-hosted media, and more. This is part of our Data Dragnet fundraising campaign! Thank you to our viewers for making this possible! https://store.gamersnexus.net/data-dr... WE NEED YOUR HELP TO FUND THIS SERIES. The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Check out Wendell here!    / level1techs   Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us:   / gamersnexus   This is part of a growing movement of self-hosting, homelab, and DIY content that's brewing from the scraps of DIY PCs. Not only does a DIY router give you more control, including over your privacy, it's also just fun to learn. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Own Everything And Be Happy 02:06 - It's Just Fun 04:37 - The FCC's Short-Sighted Router Ban 06:33 - Building a DIY Router 09:06 - ISPs Mandating Hardware 12:31 - Disclaimer and Disclosures 13:45 - DIY ROUTER: GETTING STARTED 16:53 - pfSense's Crazy History 20:21 - pfSense Setup: How-To Guide 29:02 - OPNsense's History 31:44 - OPNsense Setup: How-To Guide 35:35 - OpenWrt's History 36:38 - OpenWrt Setup: How-To Guide 38:55 - IPFire Setup: How-To Guide 43:22 - ISPs Are Evil, ft. AT&T 45:24 - Replacing ISP ONTs and Routers 49:23 - RouterOS Overview 50:16 - DD-WRT Overview 50:51 - Tomato Overview 51:26 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t:   / gamersnexus   f:   / gamersnexus   w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Additional Writing, Research Patrick Lathan: Writing, Testing, Research Vitalii Makhnovets: Camera, Editing Tim Phetdara: Editing, Camera