Modern routers love to brag about ad blocking, smart DNS, traffic control, security layers, AI-this, and cloud-that. If I give it another firmware update, it’ll probably start offering life-coaching services. And for a while, I bought into all that. I let my router run most of my home network like some overconfident middle manager who just discovered dashboards. It “optimized traffic.” It “protected devices.” It made decisions I never explicitly asked for. It also randomly broke things: websites timing out for no reason, DNS slowing down like it needed a vape break, and devices behaving differently depending on what corner of the crib they were in, as if my Wi-Fi suddenly developed moods.
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