Router firewall good enough?

emtoucan

emtoucan

emtoucan

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Hi guys,

Just a quick question.

Would my router firewall be enough to protect my home wireless network or should I also be using another personal firewall on top?

The router in question is the N1 Vision.

Cheers :)
 
i would personally use one mainly so that you can control traffic to and from each of your individual applications and other clients on your LAN but i havent found a vista (x64) one thats just right yet.

comodo was too over bearing and tried to be too clever for its own good (having to configure your own logic based rules for traffic, which still didn't act as hoped), monitoring everthing even things which imo a firewall shouldnt (the registry, and file changes).

vista's own isnt configurable enough and hides everything from you (plus you wouldnt build a fence out of chickens to protect chickens from foxes if you see what i mean)

i cant remember exactly what was wrong with zonealarm but it was x64 bit specific, so it may be okay for you, i've always liked and used zone alarm havent had much experience with the newer (since they became checkpoint) versions due to to the x64 troubles.
 
OK cheers guys, I have a paid up version of AVG.

Was just wondering if I should stop using this but looks like it's safer to continue.
 
ditch avg

if you want to pay, paid for nod32 av, and use the router + windows firewall

zone alarm is a steam POS, causes way too many problems / blue screens etc
 
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