[PLUG] trying to find a cable modem / wifi combination which gives the user full control

[Russell Senior]

Look for a cable modem with a single ethernet port and no wifi. That
cable modem will almost certainly be "bridging" out of the box. Then
run your own gateway/wifi behind that. Be sure that any service
exposed on the WAN side of your gateway has robust access control,
because it will be hammered by all manner of port scanning/brute-force
password trying.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 1:28 PM American Citizen
<website.reader3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> Xfinity is pushing me to abandon my current cable modem/wifi router
> combination and adopt one of the following:
>
> Recommended Devices
>
> ARRIS / Surfboard
> S33 or SBG8300 or G36
>
> Netgear
> CBR750 or CAX30 or CAX80 or CM1100 or CM2000 or CM2050V
>
> Hitron Technologies
> CODA56
>
> The last time I upgraded to a Netgear C6300 v2, I lost control over the
> IPV6 provisioning, and some critical DNS parameters in the setup. This
> basically meant my internet provider overruled any VPN I was trying to
> use and had full access to all the internet connections live.
>
> Has anyone found a cable modem (up to 1.2 gigs/sec) and wifi combination
> which gives the user full control so VPN will work? In my case the DNS
> queries were intercepted then substituted. I can understand my internet
> provider wanting to know all secrets.. but I really want to do VPN.
>
> Thank you for letting me know.
>
> Randall
>