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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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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