Router Setup and Security

[Oddysey]

Ralph;

Firewalls, and for that matter, every device that's "in the loop", will add some amount of time to the overall transfer speed. Whether it's soft- or hardware, some decrease in speed is inevitible. That said, most of us find that we are perhaps losing only 1 or 2 percent of our possible throughput speed. A few users might be losing a greater percentage, but that would more likely be because they have a greater number of devices in the chain.

Outpost is fast, it shouldn't be noticible unless you have either mis-configured it, or you have encumbered it with far more rules than necessary. Of course, you determine what's necessary for your system, not me or anyone else. But unless we see some feedback otherwise here, I'm gonna go on record as stating that neither Kerios nor Outpost should add more than 1 to 2 percent to your time to process a datastream. But I do emphasize the "should" - you may experience greater delays for reasons that make perfect sense to you, even if another person might not understand or agree with your reasons for doing so.

For best safety practices, re-enable your software firewall. At least that's how we do it here on Mars! [lol]



Oddysey