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i've always had a router in front of the ips modem until my router died recently. is there any specific reason to have a router in front of a telus modem?

Hey there! my internal router bit it and so i've connected everything directly to my Telus T3200M. most things seem to be working ok... how do i set up the firewall for transmission torrent client? under Firewall>>Port Forwarding in the modems admin ...