Best 3rd party wifi router to use with Shaw

[Metisqueen2020]

Hey all,

I would like to purchase a 3rd party wifi router to be able to change my dns and/or maybe run a vpn through the router since Shaw does not have any equipment that I can do that with at the moment.  Does anyone have any suggestions the best router to use that will work with Shaw?  I will most likely purchase from Amazon, so the seller will probably NOT guarantee its workability with Shaw.  A representative at The Source told me he believed that Shaw supported Wifi 6.0 and to buy one of those routers, however, they are quite expensive.  I'm looking for a much smaller price range.  Before I buy (and have to return, maybe) does anyone know what specs/features that will work with Shaw?

Thanks in advance

[mdk]

@Metisqueen2020 --  A representative at The Source told me he believed that Shaw supported Wifi 6.0 and to buy one of those routers, however, they are quite expensive. 

Shaw is not receptive to allowing any cable-modems on their network, other than what they "rent" to their customers, such as HITRON or BlueCurve XB6 or the ARRIS XB7.

On my two-year Value Plan, I get charged $4/month for rental of the cable-modem, but with an offsetting credit, bringing my net (no pun intended) cost to zero/month for using the cable-modem that they have supplied to me.

Yes, the newest XB7 cable-modem is the one mentioned in their "Shaw Gig WiFi" commercials, because it uses WiFi 6.0, which is what you want.

If you have just one Windows computer attached to the cable-modem, just configure its TCP/IP settings to use your preferred DNS-servers, instead of using the IP-addresses offered to you by Shaw's DHCP-server, in response to your computer's DNS-client.

QED

[mdk]

@Metisqueen2020 -- VPN

According to: https://www.opera.com/features/free-vpn

the Opera web-browser has built-in VPN support, for web-surfing anonymously.

According to a Wikipedia page, Opera is based on the same Chromium open-source software that Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge use.

[rstra]

@Metisqueen2020  For a while I was using an Asus Dark Knight router, it was awesome, had great range and features. The model I had, wasn’t WiFi 6, but Asus has a new model that does support that feature.

https://www.asus.com/Networking-IoT-Servers/WiFi-Routers/ASUS-WiFi-Routers/RT-AX68U/