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

Google Fiber utilizes VLAN packet tagging, for no really necessary reason. :frowning: You’ll enjoy sharply curtailed throughput (even though the port is operating at 1Gb speed) unless your router supports it and you can figure out how to configure VLAN tag re-writing. DD-WRT seems to support it, but I never got it working. (If DD-WRT is so damn great, why does it seem like no-one shares their configuration recipes?) There are some tutorials online for configuring certain SO/HO switches to replace your Google Fiber router as gateway so you can get full speed. You’d connect that to the fiber jack and then you hang your gigabit-capable router of choice after it.

Placing a router, even a gigabit one, after the Google router results in a huge performance hit. But, I’d rather have my router manage my devices, so I settle for ~500Mbps and conceal my devices from Google behind a DD-WRT router which is configured to present a PC’s MAC on the WAN side so Google thinks it’s just a laptop. :wink:

I only get ~700Mbps when my PC is directly connected to the Google router anyway so the difference isn’t noticeable. 500Mbps for $73.71/mo is still a good deal!

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