7+ Raspberry Pi Network Tutorials
These Raspberry Pi network tutorials are designed to help you improve your home network and help you to give it extra functionality that most affordable routers don’t provide.
If you’re looking to set up a secure VPN WiFi point or just looking to extend your WiFi range, then these projects are perfect. Most of them are relatively easy to set up, so they’re ideal for both new and advanced users.
There are a few things that might complicate these tutorials, especially when dealing with WiFi. For the best compatibility, I would suggest upgrading to the Pi 3 and be using the inbuilt WiFi.
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Raspberry Pi Pi-Hole: A Network Wide Ad-blocker
In this Raspberry Pi Pi-hole tutorial, we will be setting up a network-wide ad blocker. A network-wide ad blocker works by acting as your DNS server. What the network-wide ad blocker does is act as your DNS server. Your computers our routers will connect to it for DNS...
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Simple Raspberry Pi WiFi Extender
A Raspberry Pi WiFi Extender is a cheap and power efficient way of increasing the total range of your WiFi Network. A WiFi extender differs a fair bit from a WiFi access point. The main difference being that instead of getting its network connection from Ethernet, it...
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi Captive Portal
In this tutorial, we will be showing your how-to setup a Raspberry Pi Captive Portal by utilizing the popular nodogsplash software. A Captive Portal is basically a screen that will be shown initially to anyone who connects to your Wi-Fi Access Point. Before they can...
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How to setup a Raspberry Pi TOR Access Point
In this tutorial we will be going through the steps on how to setup a basic Raspberry Pi TOR Access Point. Before you get started with this tutorial you must of already completed our wireless access point tutorial as this tutorial is an extension of that. In this...
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Easy Raspberry Pi WiFi Bridge
A Raspberry Pi WiFi bridge is one of the best ways of providing internet access to a device that only supports an Ethernet connection. In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup a WiFi bridge, and how to setup dnsmasq correctly to allow any device to connect...
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The Ultimate Books of Pi
The Ultimate Books of Pi are jam-packed full of Raspberry Pi projects with over 500+ pages to explore. We're continually working on it with plenty more projects to be added...
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Raspberry Pi VPN Access Point: Setup a Basic VPN Router
In this Raspberry Pi VPN access point tutorial, we will be exploring how to setup a VPN for use with a WiFi Access point. This tutorial is pretty straight forward and once setup you can leave it alone with only needing do maintenance if something goes wrong. This...
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Raspberry Pi Wireless Access Point
A Raspberry Pi wireless access point is a great way to extend the length of your Wi-Fi coverage, and provide an additional access into your network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to setup a wireless access point, and how to configure the multiple packages...
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Raspberry Pi VPN Server: Build Your Own Virtual Private Network
In this tutorial, I will be going through the steps on how to setup a Raspberry Pi VPN server using the OpenVPN software. I will also go into setting up various things you must do to ensure that your connection is as secure as possible by setting up encryption keys....
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Setting up Raspberry Pi WiFi
Looking to learn how to set up the Raspberry Pi WiFi then this is the guide to check out. I go into several topics in this guide that will help anyone grasp an understanding of how the WiFi is set up on the Raspberry Pi. In this guide, I will show you how to set up...
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Raspberry Pi Port Forwarding & Dynamic DNS
In this guide, I will take you through on how to setup Raspberry Pi port forwarding on the router and also setting up Raspberry Pi Dynamic DNS. Both of these complement each other, but port forwarding is very important if you want web applications accessible over the...
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Setting up a network can be the easiest or the most frustrating thing in the world. Many different factors that may influence the difficulty of setting up your network to how you want it.
These network tutorials will hopefully make it easier but keep mind slight differences in equipment can complicate a simple process. Concerning WiFi, most of our newer projects are based on the Pi 3’s inbuilt WiFi rather than a third-party dongle. The inbuilt Wifi makes dealing with WiFi a little more comfortable.
If you’re looking for different projects such as Pi servers, then be sure to check out that page. There is quite a range of servers that you can setup on the Raspberry Pi. The tutorials are perfect if you find yourself needing to achieve a task but don’t need a fully-fledged dedicated server.
These Raspberry Pi network projects will hopefully get you going on whatever you plan to do. If there is a tutorial missing that you will like to see then be sure to suggest it, you can do this by emailing me or leaving a comment on a tutorial.
