On opnsense or pfsense you can run “/sbin/rtsol -a”, or replace the “-a” with the interface name for the WAN (igb0 or whatever it is). If you do this every 20 minutes or so it should keep the route active.
I don’t have a great suggestion for you, (I use eero) but yes it is possible for a misbehaving device to tank network speeds. Sometimes this can happen even if the device doesn’t have your wifi password. For example there is an IoT chipset that will ...
You need to send a periodic router solicitation every so often to keep the route alive. Telus aren’t obeying the RFC on this and as far as I’ve seen only a couple of other ISPs in the world do this, so it doesn’t work with most routers out there exce...
Gaming doesn’t generally require a lot of bandwidth except when downloading a new game or an update. It’s much moreimportant to have low latency and a reliable connection. If you’re noticing problems it’s much more likely to be wifi related, and upgr...
