Hardware Selection help for beginner

That’s the one. I wrote up somewhat of a how-to and lessons learned here:

The above post will be submitted to the official docs this weekend.

Wow, in that case I would put my own router after the ISP router and treat the gateway as dirty like the Internet. If my ISP demanded I keep my router PW set as the default (or demanded my password) that means that pretty much everyone knows that password. Furthermore, that means the router is open to being administered remotely so any two-bit script kiddie could get into my network. No thank you. Let them do what they want with “their” gateway, but I won’t let my network touch it without going through a good firewall first.

If you are in the US, I’m sadly aware that often we have only one choice for broadband so changing ISPs is almost never an option. But that policy is frankly appalling. And we wonder why we have a computer security problem.