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  • It depends on your threat model or how I like to call it: the paranoia level. Since all connections go through the ISP router anyway you won’t really gain that much privacy unless you directly put a VPN on your router.

    Here is what you could potentially stop leaking:

    • MAC addresses of your devices
    • DNS queries if you use unencrypted DNS

    Also theoretically, the router could be an entry point to do attacks against your devices.

    People who use pfsense mostly do that because they want more features. For example I have an IoT VLAN that cannot talk to the internet.

    For privacy the simplest thing would be to try and put a custom firmware on your WiFi router, like OpenWRT.

    Everything else is a bit of an overhaul. And in the end, you always have to trust that the WiFi access points manufacturers firmware does not exfiltrate data.

    Also, I would just try plugging in to the modem and see what happens. Most likely you’re just wasting power right now with that ISP router.