I guess that explains it, but that’s even more scummy, really. You’re paying all these off of tbe same account, yeah? And they’re still using it as an excuse to dupe the fee?

Holy shit, your AutoPay discount is $40?! Is this, like, not USD or something?

Definitely this. If you’re absolutely sure you can’t change config on the router, then you just treat it like a modem. Let it serve up one, single DHCP lease to your own router and run your network off of that.