yeah, it's just fucking rude and shitty

and they aren't the only ISP locking this on with this device, most of the info i found about people trying to disable it and sometimes effective were on an ISP called Optimum, and MEO portugal is the one doing it here

so glad i was able to find a workaround though... probably can rig something more reasonable as a faraday cage that still lets the thing breathe (the microwave will allow the heat to dissipate also) but EVEN WITH THE ANTENNAS UNPLUGGED it was able to see and connect to it... mind blowing... the signal is so strongly sent through the wires that it transmits even without a proper configuration of antenna