Thanks. Do you have any sense as to why those linked firewall devices even need to hit that $500+ range when there are $200 options? Is it just for some advanced use case that normies like us are unlikely to need?

It’s all fun until my wife or I can’t connect to the internet for work or leisure! But I’ll definitely run my experiments on a weekend where there can be the least disruption. Thanks for the tips. Do you have links to a handful of devices you’d recommend in place of what I was shopping for based on this guide? Also, I picked one of the ones from that Amazon link at random, and it says it only pulls 6W; dedicated devices can beat that?

There is a section in my advanced settings to bridge the ethernet connection, yes, though both that UI and the manual are a little light on details. Thanks for the heads up.

In that case, if I’ve got some port forwarding set up on the router, it would no longer apply once the firewall is in there, right? And I’d have to port forward from the firewall once it’s in place? Or the firewall is literally just one other hop on the network that the router doesn’t care about, even if the router connects to the firewall’s WAN?