OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network
Dan
grinnz at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 14:21:41 UTC 2006
Jimmy Montague wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>
I bought it, I plugged it in, I use WEP with NM, it works :)
-Dan
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