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Five Router Settings I Change on Every Home Network — Including My Own
Default router configs favor convenience over safety. These five changes are the first things I do on any home network.
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I'm Mike Chen, a network engineer in Portland. Utiliy is where I write walkthroughs from projects I run at home — DNS filtering, router configs that survived my parents' house, and side gigs that actually paid me.
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