I don’t like this. That’s super weird and I would not trust it. I’m sure it’s “fine” but I’d hard pass on that. Set up my own 100% for sure.
Yeah, good to have my suspicions confirmed. This setup is standard where I live now, and I don’t think you can get around it. First I noticed this was a coupe of years back. I’ll start finding a suitable router and set it up in bridge mode.
I don’t understand. Can I get a pic (MS Paint or real or something) or some brand names or something? I understand if you don’t want to show, I’m just not sure what you’re saying.
I have two small boxes in a cabinet - one is receiving a white cable that comes from outside my home, and outputs an optical signal that goes into the other box. This other box also gets a coax cable from outside my home, and outputs an ethernet connection that is connected to what my ISP calls a WiFi router. This has additional LAN ports as well.
Go to this site with out your VPN on, it will tell you if you’re using your raw internet to download torrents: iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/
I could not access this site now, however, I’ve checked this with the torrent address detection tool on ipleak.net many times before. I recently had an issue where my real IP would show for a second if I disconnected my VPN connection manually, but I solved this. My torrent client is bound to the interface created by the VPN client. At this point I am pretty sure it is fine. But I will close the ports again.