Hardware firewall?

[Mynight]

Does anyone use a hardware firewall? I'm seriously considering adding one to my home network.

Is software a good enough solution or would a combination be better?

I know nothing is infallible but I need to up the ante in regards to security.

 

[Mynight]

Indeed the router does have a firewall but I wasn't sure that it was the same thing.

I wasn't thinking it would be thousands for home office job pretty much throws the option out the window already.

I need to connect to the office and my partners network via VPN as well as making sure the back ups I create are sufficiently shielded from the outside net(at the moment my home is serving as offsite backup). Its personal data as well as business data.

Unless my current solution of downloading straight to bluray(via windows vpn) then pulling the disk is sufficient.

Maybe I'm thinking overkill

 

[Mynight]

Arrgh right I think I'm being stupid then lol.

Thank you all! Maybe my paranoia is overpowering my ability to think (well what ability I had anyway ).

Edit: no I'm using l2TP which as I understand it is more secure but slower than pptp (very limited understanding as I'm sure you've already guessed).