Was rather shocked to find BT hubs don’t allow you to change DNS servers anymore and force you to use their own ones, so I can’t properly setup adguard.
What routers are people using now that are reliable and will let me control my own network configuration
Lots of good suggestions. The down side to a pc running opnsense is going to be electricity costs. If that’s a concern.
Any of the Asus routers supported by Merlin will do what you need. (That’s what I’m currently doing). It has a feature called DNS control that will intercept DNS lookups and send them to the servers you define.
Edit: opnsense not nonsense.
There are mini pcs running atom or celeron with impressive specs and Gbit capability that use <15w
Yeah that’s actually a long term goal of mine. Get one of those soc boxes with 4 eth ports designed to be a pf/opnsense box.