Looks solid!

Do you have any IoT devices chewing up a lot more bandwidth than they should be?

The factory reset idea is mostly to clear out any unauthorized customization that may have been made. If you can confirm that hasn’t happened then it wouldn’t be necessary. I have a router that’s not supported by my ISP so I feel your pain. Fortunately I only had to figure out how to tag a particular vlan on the WAN to get it working and someone else had posted a guide that got me most of the way there.

Can you get into your router’s admin interface? At the very least assuming you don’t have much networking experience I’d do these things in this order:

1 - Check for firmware updates and apply them

2 - Factory reset

3 - Change password

4 - Recheck for updates in case the reset wiped them out

There’s a million other things you can do to get more info on what’s going on and put in security layers to do this and that. But if you just want the maximum results for the minimum effort this is the best place to start.

I added a sink to it over the weekend, now there’s a place to rinse out paintbrushes and wash hands. It’s hooked up to a garden hose, so there’s no hot water. There’s a twist timer at the end of the hose so it will shut the water off automatically after 2 hours in case the 3 year old leaves the sink running. The drain just goes out the back corner and into the lawn. I’ve been dumping my buckets of paint water in the side yard for several years now and it hasn’t killed my grass yet so it should be OK.

It works perfectly! I was able to leave a 6 and 3 year old out there with 50 little paint bottles completely unattended for 45 minutes while I made dinner last night. There’s paint all over the place in the playhouse but none got in their hair or in our house so I call that a win.

Thanks!

Did you make the catio too? I was thinking about making one of those with an exit from a basement egress window.

I bet she loves that, good work!

Thanks!