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squirrelhunter's avatar
squirrelhunter
Freshman
7 years ago

HT2000W SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection

Does having the SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection turned on in the Intrusion Detection section of the Firewall setting cause more data usage or how about the Discard Ping To WAN Interface setting? I turned both on thinking they probably should be on and in the 3 weeks before,we only used 1% of our data but after I did that we used 26% overnight. I turned off the Discard Ping To WAN Interface setting but left the SPI and Anti-DoS firewall protection on. Should I turn it off too or do either of these have any effect on data?

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    7 years ago

    Neither will have an effect on your data usage, and are useless features to enable/disable if you're not an SME customer.

    Best practice says to keep them enabled though.

  • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
    C0RR0SIVE
    Associate Professor
    7 years ago

    Neither will have an effect on your data usage, and are useless features to enable/disable if you're not an SME customer.

    Best practice says to keep them enabled though.

    • GabeU's avatar
      GabeU
      Distinguished Professor IV
      7 years ago

      C0RR0SIVE

       

      Are they useless because of the shared IPs with the residential plans?  

      • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
        C0RR0SIVE
        Associate Professor
        7 years ago

        More like because the IPv4 on residential systems isn't a publically facing IP address... However, they may be beneficial to have enabled if you're using IPv6 since that is public facing.