Great idea.
Also, if possible, ask the ISP to put their equipment in bridge mode and just put your own router behind their gear. 

Andrei.


 SM> Hi Ward!

 SM> Friday December 25 2020 12:36, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 WD>> The ISP is still refusing me the password for the higher-level in the
 WD>> company installed router to deal with this.

 WD>> Their position is if they release such passwords that the customer may
 WD>> destroy the set-up.

 WD>> I've also noticed they are able to upload new firmware and reboot the
 WD>> modem/router from a central site. If they give me the password I could
 WD>> change it and deny them the option to auto-update firmware. They want to
 WD>> avoid that too.

 SM> When I ran into a similar problem at my cousin's house, the provider
 SM> generally closed access to the settings of his router, I just made a reset
 SM> to the factory configuration and set everything up myself, not forgetting
 SM> to completely close all incoming connections, except for the ICMP.

 SM> Have a nice night.
 SM>           Stas Mishchenkov.

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