> Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem I think I'm going to have to go down this path, I was just hoping to avoid it.

> Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem I think I'm going to have to go down this path, I was just hoping to avoid it. It means having another device to configure, another set of blinking lights, another weird shaped plug to try and squeeze into the power board and learning whatever PPPoE is just to transform Ethernet packets into the ADSL equivalent. It also possibly means a more complicated setup controlling outbound connections so that a compromised server cannot reach the modem.