OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network
Jimmy Montague
rhetoric101 at att.net
Fri Apr 14 13:46:35 UTC 2006
I can't speak for others, but Linksys rules Windows home networking as
far as I'm concerned. I buy it. I plug it in. It works. The worst
network hardware in my Windows experience is D-link. I bought it. I
plugged it in. It didn't work. I exchanged it. I plugged it in. It
didn't work. I plugged it in 10 bazillion times and it didn't work 10
bazillion times. Their tech support can't make it work. I'm bald today.
D-link is crap. Don't buy it.
Jimmy
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:00:55 -0400,
> Debbie Deutsch <fedoralist at ddeutsch.org> wrote:
>
>> These days, routers come with the "firewall" capabilities built in. If
>> you stick with any of the major brands you probably will be fine. (I
>> have no horror tales about obscure manufacturers, but I *know* you will
>> almost certainly be okay if you get a model from, say, Linksys or NetGear.)
>>
>
> Buying major brand firewalls is go guarenty of not having problems. Some
> bonehead decisions have been made in the past in order to reduce support
> costs for consumer level firewall devices.
>
> For someone that doesn't know what they are doing, a consumer level hardware
> firewall device is a cost effective way to gain some protection.
>
> These hardware firewalls are really just software firewalls with the software
> loaded from firmware. Their advantages are low cost for a dedicated firewall
> and quietness.
>
>
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