With all the gov’t attacks on privacy these days I’ve been thinking about getting my own router. I’ve never done it and am pretty new to network stuff overall. I certainly welcome any recommendations for routers but I mainly have a stupid question:
Is it as simple as just swapping out the isp router? I’ve disconnected anything I had exposed to the internet and use LAN only right now so none of my old port forwarding rules are needed.
If you want to get really fancy, get a router with an SFP port and put an XGSPON module with 8311 firmware in it. It’s a fiber gateway on an SFP module that lies to your ISP so it looks like the provided gateway/router combo. That way, you bypass their box entirely.