Re: OT - Buying a 2nd PC

Dom Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Yes, the ADSL wireless router replaces your existing ADSL modem.
>
> What about the firewall (Atguard) I currently use in the PC? I like to
> keep control of what's coming in with that, but while I've heard that
> routers have have firewalls how can you be sure they're going to
> block/accept the right things since there's so many ports and
> connections a modem can make.

They block all incomng ports by default, you setup port forwarding
as needed for particular games / torrent / etc

The software firewall is still useful for outgoing traffic from your PC.

>> Theoretically instead of buying the router, you could buy one wifi
>> card for each PC and use windows XPs internet sharing,
>> but its the worst way of doing this kind of thing. In fact don't
>> even think of doing that ;)
>
> I enabled Internet Connection Sharing between the PC and the Xbox, and
> with XP it was a doddle, but on the previous PC with Win98SE it was an
> absolute nightmare and took hours to get right.

To extend that to wifi, you'd be trying to share the adsl modem out over
2 networks: wired network (xbox) and simultaneously wireless as well.
Not a good idea for windows ICS

--
Mike



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