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The hidden router setting that is quietly slowing down your internet

This is the one router setting I change immediately on every network ...
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What is the advantage to having a computer be a dedicated router instead of a router?

You can do tons of stuff with a computer that most hardware NAT-routers cannot do, like having firewall software run on it, provide services (print (I know the SMC routers also have this), file, proxy ...