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Originally Posted by Sosa
Does your cable modem not have a built in firewall as well?
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Eww... first thing I do is set up the cable modem as a gateway, screw it's router capabilities. I want EVERYTHING going through that modem so that I can manage things myself.
I can never get a cable/adsl modem to let traffic through the way they are supposed to. They always cause headaches or limit traffic somehow. Once it's all free to pass, I'm better able to manage it with my own router.
As for the original question, go with a hardware firewall if you can because in this day and age, computers come and go far too quickly and easily. Set up the hardware and maintain it and be happy.... otherwise you'll forever be installing your software on every computer you add or replace from here on out... which can happen quite frequently.