audio-router VS pfSense

Audio router

I imagine Audio router might help in what you're looking for.

The ones that people recommended that I could still find (both of which are at least 7 years old): https://github.com/audiorouterdev/audio-router https://vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm

I personally use Audio Router, you can look up guides about how to set it up fairly easily.

How did you used to route audio from YouTube to Audacity? Mac's require something like Blackhole to do that. Maybe try something like https://github.com/audiorouterdev/audio-router

https://github.com/audiorouterdev/audio-router and some virtual cable device?

If Voicemeeter can't force it, you can use this one, so you can select the output for the specific app. But you'll still need Voicemeeter or Virtual Audio Cable

One program you can test is Audio Router. It can't mess up anything, but it also has not received any updates in over 6 years so it's not uncommon for it to not work with certain devices or programs.

One option is Firewalla Gold Plus, or you could buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself.

Download and install pfsense as a virtual machine or partition: https://www.pfsense.org Configure it with the rules you want: https://youtu.be/VAGFGppSt74 Play with it, but be careful because it will block all traffic unless you check everything properly.

Another option is Firewalla, or buy a mini PC like it and run pfSense/OPNsense yourself. Two similar concepts, with the cost being either money or your DIY time. A lot of Firewalla users say that it's much easier for home use than pfSense/OPNsense, so you might find it worthwhile to spend a little more on it upfront and have to tinker less.

If you want firewall, I think you can use https://www.pfsense.org/ or https://opnsense.org/ , maybe running on an old PC or a Raspberry Pi. Not sure.

I've recently started using OPNsense. It's similar to pfSense, but seems to be considered a little more user-friendly.

For most router issues, I recommend people always put them in to dumb bridge mode and put a proper firewall like pfsense or opnsense as your gateway.

I have found that my historical average packet loss is about 0.02%. Something distinctly changed around 4/20 of this year, and now the average packet loss has gone up to 0.05% with spikes even higher, associated with periods of elevated ping times. It rarely did that before. Typically the IPv6 stack has more problems than v4 (especially an incident of packet loss on 4/28), and neither has been trouble-free since I started service in early 2020. My data comes from a pfSense installation.

I have done this using the Pfsense