Ok, this is more of a story than a question, but I figured I thought I would share it in case it helps other people, and a bit of bragging on top of that.

This past Sunday (2/4/2018) I awoke to my phone/DSL line being dead (no dial tone or DSL signal) due to a cable breaking in town. My standard network configuration is a DSL modem and a WRT router, I happened to have another WRT router on which I had installed Open-WRT (a Linux based firmware), because of this I was able to configure the Opwn-WRT router in routed client mode, instructions can be found HERE, attach that to my android phone in hotspot mode and plug it into the WAN port of my other WRT router, thus bypassing the DSL modem, thus allowing internet on all WIFI devices in the house to share the hotspot without reconfiguring each device to use the hotspot directly, thus when the DSL line came back up, all I had to do was re-plug a couple wires into place and resume business as usual. Just sharing that story as food for thought in case anyone else has a similar experience.