OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[Jimmy Montague]

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.
>
>