Sir I have read at least 200 of your advice so I deeply appreciate your opinions.

Perhaps with some more personal info you might feel comfortable directing me...at least with hints on where to google or explore.

I started my rural life with ATT dial up on d-link and later linksys WRT modems. Learned how to tweak internals to get reliable 256Kbps on voice twisted pair...frustrating in 1996~7 when urban families sent photo laden e-mails...bet you can relate.

My job after enlisted army was Operational Test Command Fort Hood as a test officer for enterprise software systems...Ironic as it were with a heavy aircraft maintenance background.

That said in the Army I was an anomaly in the early 80s because I was a computer building nerd with my own BBC. I could build a better Dos based computer for friends that the radio shack TRS 80 crap.

Command took notice and sent me to several schools...mostly to manage Intel 380 mini computers on Zenix OS for the Ft Eustice aviation school house.

Thus I was DOS 1.1 and Unix/Zenix/COBAL/FORTRAN versant much to the chagrin to any Army IT managment folk...me a lowly staff sergeant

A terrible amount of words to say I pretty much know about technology and security.

I am very pissed that today there is not a home turn key ISP WAN to complicated LAN set of management software and hardware for the typical dummy (that I am not)

Each system I explored has some fatal flaw. NetGear product sales seem to omit the flaws (I get it...sales) and I screwed up NOT finding this forum until I had $880 in product on hand.

The more I read the less confident I am to establish a home network I can see ENTIRELY and manage with the software tools provided..IE Genie/NightHawk app....and I am incensed that there is NOT a usable Win 10/11 Network managment GUI

Thanks for reading.....back to my weekly system backups

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