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Yeah I hadn't realized this. I was hoping I could just swap out a new router for the current isp unit. It's beginning to make sense though, I just have to turn the Bell modem/router to act as just a modem. Gonna take some time and research more into it before I make any decisions. Thanks for taking the time.
Good thing is that you can just connect your custom router to the isp router and create a subnet with which you can experiment until you are confident and then you just switch your devices to the subnet (or multiple subnets).
Oh cool, so I could just connect the WAN without changing anything on the isp modem/router and the new router would be it's own subnet network, kind of like a guest network? Then when things look good I could just switch the isp modem/router to 'bridge' or DMZ settings and shunt everything through the new one?
The wan being the connection from the isp router. But yes. You likely won't get rid of isp router, but if you create your own subnet(s) and the only device connected to your isp router would be your router, everything would be safe (firewalled) from everything on the outer network (and of course internet).