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.
What is your current fiber/dsl config? Is the ISP router acting as modem or do you rely on external ONT (Optical Network Terminal, means to translate light into electricity)? So that you know what to search online to replace the ISP router. If your ISP is very kind you could get completely rid of it, by connecting directly to the ONT. Or your ISP could provide a bridge mode to the router which means that the ISP router is only doing its modem role. Or your coule put it in DMZ or open the rules to let all traffic go to your router, this way works every time but is doing double NAT, basically nesting a LAN inside the existing LAN of the ISP router