🏚️ Chapter 1: The Budget


Let me set the scene.

Most of us don't get to choose our router. Your ISP comes to your house, puts a white plastic box on the wall, gives you a paper with the WiFi password, and leaves. That's it. That's your whole network now.

My box was a Huawei HG8240. A GPON terminal. This kind of device exists in millions of...