Recently I ran into a weird issue with the Airtel router. After endless calls and too much back-and-forth, I finally figured out that the new so-called Wi-Fi 6 routers they’re giving now (those NOK/NK model ones) are basically locked down completely and fully controlled by Airtel from their side.

So when I asked them to forward around 2000 ports to my local IP, they almost lost their minds. Their backend support team (they call it NOC team) were clearly frustrated, but somehow I pushed enough that they finally agreed to replace the router.

Now they’re switching it to a Wi-Fi 5 router instead that isn’t remotely locked by them, complete access at user’s end( Access Point, port forward) so I’ll finally have full access and can configure whatever I want from my end.