Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

My D-Link 604 is starting to act up so need a new wired router soon.
Which one has a decent firewall, does not lag your internet connection
much and is not too expensive? Must be Xbox 360 compatible too. Thanks.

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

"John Adams" wrote in message
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> My D-Link 604 is starting to act up so need a new wired router soon. Which
> one has a decent firewall, does not lag your internet connection much and
> is not too expensive? Must be Xbox 360 compatible too. Thanks.

That's a good question. I recently bought the very affordable Netgear
WGR614. It offers SPI (stateful packet inspection), an option to disable
response to "ping" from the internet, and the ability to turn off the
wireless radio when not needed. That's better then I was using previously,
but it's probably still pretty lightweight. What is your budget?

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

John Adams writes:

> My D-Link 604 is starting to act up so need a new wired router
> soon. Which one has a decent firewall, does not lag your internet
> connection much and is not too expensive? Must be Xbox 360 compatible
> too. Thanks.

In the home budget range, the Linksys WRT54GL (just turn off the
wireless radio) or about any other Broadcom based device with
sufficient memory paired with the free dd-wrt firmware can create a
rather complex firewall of your choosing when paired with third party
firmware.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Firewall_Builder

As far as bang for the buck goes, I'm not sure there's anything
better.

(Yes, pedants, a Cisco PIX, a Juniper, Netscreen, or a Nokia IPSO based
firewall would be better if price, noise, size and power consumption
were no object. )

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

On 07 Dec 2007 10:01:11 -0600, comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:

>Linksys WRT54GL

Any idea how you can tell this particular model from the other
non-Linus one? I've been looking at the package and can't see this
info.
John Jones, Detroit

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

John Jones writes:

> On 07 Dec 2007 10:01:11 -0600, comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:
>
> >Linksys WRT54GL
>
> Any idea how you can tell this particular model from the other
> non-Linus one? I've been looking at the package and can't see this
> info.

The L in the model number.

WRT54G vs WRT54GL.


The WRT54GL is what you want to run third party firmware without
limitations.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

Victek wrote:

> That's a good question. I recently bought the very affordable Netgear
> WGR614. It offers SPI (stateful packet inspection), an option to
> disable response to "ping" from the internet, and the ability to turn
> off the wireless radio when not needed. That's better then I was using
> previously, but it's probably still pretty lightweight. What is your
> budget?

Up to $100.00 but preferably less. :)

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

Todd H. wrote:

> In the home budget range, the Linksys WRT54GL (just turn off the
> wireless radio) or about any other Broadcom based device with
> sufficient memory paired with the free dd-wrt firmware can create a
> rather complex firewall of your choosing when paired with third party
> firmware.
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Firewall_Builder
>
> As far as bang for the buck goes, I'm not sure there's anything
> better.

OK, thanks. That one is within my budget. It says Linux version, I
assume that still means it is fine to use with Vista and XP too.

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

John Adams writes:

> Todd H. wrote:
>
> > In the home budget range, the Linksys WRT54GL (just turn off the
> > wireless radio) or about any other Broadcom based device with
> > sufficient memory paired with the free dd-wrt firmware can create a
> > rather complex firewall of your choosing when paired with third party
> > firmware.
> > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Firewall_Builder
> > As far as bang for the buck goes, I'm not sure there's anything
> > better.
>
> OK, thanks. That one is within my budget. It says Linux version, I
> assume that still means it is fine to use with Vista and XP too.

Yeah.

The "Linux" aspect refers to the actual router itself internally
running a linux kernel. The dd-wrt firmware actually implements
an linux system as well.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

On Dec 7, 12:16 pm, John Adams wrote:
> My D-Link 604 is starting to act up so need a new wired router soon.
> Which one has a decent firewall, does not lag your internet connection
> much and is not too expensive? Must be Xbox 360 compatible too. Thanks.

What you need the firewall for? Many consumer router firewalls mainly
protect the router itself and only have very few options to actually
filter traffic from and to the LAN. The main protection of the LAN is
usually due to NAT and for that you usually can only turn it on and
off and set port forwardings into your LAN in various forms
(forwarding, triggering, DMZ, etc.)

Gerald

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

Todd H. wrote:

> Yeah.
>
> The "Linux" aspect refers to the actual router itself internally
> running a linux kernel. The dd-wrt firmware actually implements
> an linux system as well.
>

OK, good, thanks. I run Linux too but just wanted to make sure it won't
cause issues for Vista. I do know some routers cause issues with Xbox360
though so hope this one is ok in that regard.

Re: Which home user router has a decent firewall inside it?

Gerald Vogt wrote:

>
> What you need the firewall for?

So I don't have to use a software firewall too.