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Originally posted by carlywarly
As for using an old PC - the PC needs to be on, using electricity for you to access the internet. It is obviously bulky and relatively noisy, too. These routers are very small, use very little power and are silent. That's why I would choose a router every time.
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Noisy? - nah not at all. That's a voice of inexperience speaking there. You've obviously never built one. There is nothing but a power supply fan running. Besides, I wouldn't trust my networks security to some junk peddling company (read D-Link) that provides a flase sense of security for a cheap price. I know for a fact that I am secure. If security is an issue then I would advise researching the company you buy from. Their idea of security may not be equal to yours. Additionally some of us are not in a hurry to fill up the landfills any quicker than they already are by throwing out perfectly good working machines. But I understand that some people aren't intelligent enough to build their own router and would prefer some cute shrinkwrapped generic solution that owrks 'out of the box'. Here is a short quip from an article I found some time ago.
"Router security involves
protecting the network itself by hardening or securing the routers.
Specifically, it prevents attackers from using routers to gain
information about a network that can be used in an attack, disabling
the routers (and therefore the network), reconfiguring routers, and
even using the routers to launch further internal or external attacks.
Router attacks have not drawn a lot of attention from the media,
however, because routers are often used to provide attackers with
valuable information about the network and servers rather than being
the object of attack themselves. Moreover, router compromises are less
likely to be detected than other forms of attack."
Cisco-considered by most to be the best router in the world (it does run an estimated 70-80% of the internet) has even had security flaws that an attacker can exploit and use to gain access to a network. So beware (unless you don't mind advertising your credit card numbers, bank account numbers etc. to whomever may wish to see them and remeber, that goes for
any machine connected to your network.
So carlywarly - have you done a port scan on yourself lately??
https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
I have.