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Last active April 17, 2026 12:18
# Your ISP is lying to you — and your router will tell you everything

Your ISP is lying to you — and your router will tell you everything

I was pissed at my ISP locking down features so I mapped the whole routing infrastructure behind it. Port forwarding broken? "That's just how it works." Custom DNS? "Not supported." Bridge mode? "What's that?"

Spoiler: it all works. They just don't want you touching it.

So I pulled the config.bin off my ZTE F670L — the same router they shipped me, the same one they said was "fully managed for my convenience" — and decrypted it.