Editorial policy

The rules every GatewayFree page follows.

Sources

• A gateway fact needs an ISP support page, ISP-published manual, or an ISP-employee statement in an ISP-run community, and it must be linked with the date we read it.
• Router makers' own support articles (for example NETGEAR's) can describe how their product works with an ISP gateway. We label them as vendor articles and don't treat them as ISP policy.
• Forums, Reddit, retailer and affiliate pages are not evidence. They may tell us what to check next, never what to publish.

Verdicts

• Yes: the ISP documents a bridge mode, passthrough or direct-router route that lets your own router do the routing.
• Partial: the ISP documents a route that is not plain bridge mode (for example IP Passthrough, DMZplus or access-point mode), or allows your router but with limits.
• No: the ISP states the gateway can't do it.
• Unverified: the ISP's pages we could read don't settle it. Silence is not a "no".

Confidence

High: a primary ISP page states it for the model or family. Medium: family-level, implied, or an older statement. Unverified: not confirmed.

Dates

Every page shows the day we read its sources. If the ISP page changes later, our answer may be stale; the date tells you how old it is.

What we won't do

• We don't state prices. Product links, if they appear, open the live listing.
• We don't repeat rumours as fact. For example, a claimed Spectrum DOCSIS 3.0 retirement date is unverified, and the Spectrum modem policy we read doesn't mention it.
• We don't let affiliate relationships influence a verdict.
• We don't invent authors, credentials or testing. If we haven't tested something, we say so.

Corrections

When we find an error we fix the page, update its checked date and, for material changes, note it on the page.