Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router?
ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Regardless of whether your ISP is leveraging their ownership of your router to violate your privacy, they are using it to exploit you financially. Owning your own equipment is always going to save you money compared to what an ISP will charge you in rent.
chisel@piefed.social 3 days ago
Well, AT&T for example requires that you use their provided modem+router combo, which they provide for free (unless you include their plans being generally more expensive than their competitors as an extra fee). They do try to sell you on range extenders for, what I assume to be, the shit router they give you.
Their router gives you less control than you’d get with your own router, helps with lock-in because it makes it harder to change providers, and allows AT&T full root access to your network, so I wouldn’t recommend it for self-hosters. However, it is the cheapest option since you’re requited to use it anyway. Besides, of course, using a different ISP, which saves me tooons of money over AT&T.
BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 3 days ago
AT&T fiber does allow IP passthrough mode though so if you want to run your own hardware you can.
MuttMutt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That or you can double NAT. It makes self hosting tougher but if you can port forward on the provided device and just forward everything it’s basically passthrough mode.