These tutorials will guide you through improving your network with the Raspberry Pi.
In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install the Nagios monitoring software on the Raspberry Pi. Nagios is an open-source, free, and lightweight software that you can use to monitor the devices that are operating within your network.
In this guide, we will be teaching you how to set up your Raspberry Pi as a proxy server by using the Privoxy software. Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy that has advanced filtering capabilities with a focus on privacy.
In this tutorial, we take you through all the steps to configuring your Raspberry Pi to act as a DNS server. It’s ideal if you want to have a bit more control over how your local network operates. It’s a relatively easy tutorial.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up a network scanner on the Raspberry Pi. We make use of a software package called Kismet, this will scan and monitor any wireless networks. This includes signals from Bluetooth, Wifi and even software-defined radio (SDR).
In this Raspberry Pi ExpressVPN tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps of installing ExpressVPN. It’s a pretty straightforward process that will result in your network traffic being securely anonymized. ExpressVPN is yet another large VPN provider that is widely praised. There are no activity logs, connection logs and they’re based in the […]
In this tutorial, I will be going through all the steps to setting up Raspberry Pi VyprVPN. This tutorial is handy if you’re looking to connect your Pi to the VyprVPN service. There are many reasons why you may want to set up a VPN on the Raspberry Pi. The most common is that you […]
In this Raspberry Pi MAC address spoofing tutorial, we will be showing you how you can spoof the MAC Address of your Raspberry Pi’s network interfaces, either setting it to a known different MAC address or randomly generating it on the fly. This tutorial is split into two different sections. The first section shows you […]
In this Raspberry Pi NordVPN tutorial, I will be going through the steps to set up the popular NordVPN service. This setup is perfect if you use your Pi in a way that you will benefit by running through a VPN service. If you’re looking for a VPN WiFi access point, then our other tutorial […]
In this Raspberry Pi internet speed monitor tutorial, we will be showing you how you can set up your Raspberry Pi to monitor your internet connection and save the data to view in Grafana or Google Drive. This tutorial is great if you’re interested in monitoring how your download speed, upload speed, and ping are […]
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 and routers will connect to it for DNS requests. These DNS requests will then be […]
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 instead gets its network connection from a WiFi […]
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 a screen that will be shown initially to anyone who connects to your Wi-Fi Access Point. Before they can begin utilizing the Wifi connection, they will need to complete an […]
In this tutorial, we will be going through the steps on how to set up a basic Raspberry Pi TOR Access Point. Before you get started with this tutorial, you must have already completed our wireless access point tutorial as this tutorial is an extension of that. In this tutorial, we will show you how […]
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 through your Pi without issues. You […]
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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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.