Noob here. This is probably the most repeated question, but I don’t know the technical terms to make the appropiate digging online, and thought of asking humans before slopping my way around.

I don’t trust my ISP or the government above it.

The ISP remotely manages the local network! So I installed a router of my own and my devices only to that one.

I would like to encrypt (?) anything that goes out of my own router, so my ISP doesn’t evesdrop what I’m doing even if they want to (I know I know… if they really wanted, they could just send friends to my house).

Using Linux, Android GOS, and Pihole. They live under a “picked-up-from-a-shelf” router; and that router under theirs.

(I cannot get a different ISP)

Thanks

  • x@niwego.com
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    3 days ago

    @certified_expert

    I don’t trust my ISP or the government above it.

    I think everyone here today doesn’t trust their ISP and government.

    Use a #VPN or #TOR,Your ISP will only know the destination point, all traffic will be encrypted through a #tunnel

    You said you installed a router. How did you configure the modem? In Full Bridge?

    Also start changing your #DNS, don’t use your ISP’s default ones

    • certified_expert@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      My pihole serves dns. If not found, it goes directly to root tables (I forgot how they are called).

      The router, I just connected its WAN port to the ISP’s switch/router/AP. Within the LAN under my router I have DHCP sending everybody to do lookups to the pihole. I don’t know what full bridge is.

      The ISP’s modem/router/switch/AP, I cannot configure. It is a fucking “smart” brick remotely controlled.

      • x@niwego.com
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        3 days ago

        @certified_expert
        so the modem that you have from your ISP it is not possible to configure it as, ONT,Bridge or Full Bridge . 🤔

        Since you are just starting out, I recommend you start by subscribing to a VPN, (don’t use the free ones)avoid tor for now, I use Mullvad which only allows 5 devices at the same time, but there are others, I recommend you choose those that don’t keep logs.

        • TiredTiger@lemmy.ml
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          3 days ago

          If you are able to set up OpenWRT on your router and run Mullvad through that, you can cover your whole network as one “device.”

          I recommend everyone get their own modem/router if they are able to. ISP’s don’t provide them for free and you have no idea what monitoring they do with their hardware.