You absolutely must secure your home router and you probably can't

[Medievalist]

@LockeCJ

does anyone know why my pfSense box would be talking to the internet at 1Gb, but to my internal network at only 100Mb?

Swap out the cable for cat six, and make sure you don’t have any inductive loops in power wires nearby.

@fuzzyfungus

but when I asked Verizon about 'how about we just skip the MoCA nonsense and let me plug my router into the ethernet jack we both know the ONT has?" I got a response somewhere between the one reserved for people who leak state secrets and people who plan their audacious acts of necrophilia in public.

I have both the coax and RJ45s on my Verizon ONT lit up. Still need the MOCA bridge anyway, because stupid STB design. I forget the details, unfortunately.

@LockeCJ

Being your own sysadmin is not my favorite thing. By analogy: I do not enjoy driving, but I enjoy being a passenger even less.

This is a metaphor for my whole life.