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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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That makes sense. I haven't used an ISP configured router in over a decade. At my parents house, their modem/router combo didn't support bridge mode so I put it in a DMZ and slapped that to the WAN port on my router. Worked well.