OT: ADSL safe practices and setting up a home network

[Dan]

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