The original post: /r/pihole by /u/AshamedSteak7138 on 2025-01-21 13:26:43.

Hi all, I had outage issues with my internet after using pihole for about 3 weeks with no issues. I setup a pihole and it worked great. About 3 weeks in I started having issues where my hard wired (and wireless) internet kept dropping and not reconnecting. I rebooted my modem, router and other devices and things would work for 5-20 minutes and then just stop working. I thought it was probably my modem and spectrum came and checked all the equipment and when they left it was all working. However just 1 or 2 days later I started getting the same symptoms. I turned off the pihole and removed it from my dns entry on the router and have not had any issues since. Ideally I’d like to turn the pihole back on (which I will probably do for testing) and not have any issues. The pihole console did not reveal any issues when I had it working and it showed blocked ads. At this point it seems like the issue was likely the pihole since I only started having issues when it was active and have no issues when it is not. What is weird is that it worked great for 3 weeks or so before any issues showed up. When I spoke with Spectrum they suggested that there were ‘cached codes’ that were messing things up. I am wondering if they somehow hosed me because they noticed that I was blocking ads. Any thoughts on this?