Selfhosted @lemmy.world livingcoder @lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 1y ago

What's the point of having another router?

I once bought a router to use for my internet when I moved into my new house just to find out that it "wasn't compatible" with Verizon's service. I still have it (because I'm terrible about returning things). Is there any point in keeping it? Is there anything fun or interesting that I could do with it?

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I run double firewalls.

I just don't fully trust the ISP router, so I disabled the wifi and hooked it up to my own router. If the ISP router gets hacked, my internal network doesn't get exposed.

Port forwarding is a bit harder, but you probably aren't even doing that at all (and it still works anyway, it's just an extra step).
- That's an interesting idea. How do you access the router connected to the ISP to setup port forwarding to your second router? If it's too complicated to type out here, I'll understand.

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