The Main Router Discussion Topic
Non-techies, please bear with me on this. I'm starting a discussion about router technology here which may quickly get hard to follow in places. We have a lot of Techies on these forums, and their kno...
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And there it is !
There is just a "conflict of interest" with an ISP providing anything more than connection services.
Before you could drive a car, you had to take drivers training so you at least understood something of the subject.
Computers ... it used to be that home users only had a single machine and in many cases there was no software firewall built in, no anti virus, no anti malware.
Hacks and infections were all over.
The landscape has changed but user knowledge has not kept pace.
The router is very much missunderstood but is a critical part of everyones network.
Look at the large numbers of complaints here on the forum dealing with data loss. Look how difficult it is to get a novice subscriber to bypass the router even for a few hours for testing and diagnosis.
Look at the number of times we have seen that the data loss was due to a unsecured wireless network.
There is just a "conflict of interest" with an ISP providing anything more than connection services.
Before you could drive a car, you had to take drivers training so you at least understood something of the subject.
Computers ... it used to be that home users only had a single machine and in many cases there was no software firewall built in, no anti virus, no anti malware.
Hacks and infections were all over.
The landscape has changed but user knowledge has not kept pace.
The router is very much missunderstood but is a critical part of everyones network.
Look at the large numbers of complaints here on the forum dealing with data loss. Look how difficult it is to get a novice subscriber to bypass the router even for a few hours for testing and diagnosis.
Look at the number of times we have seen that the data loss was due to a unsecured wireless network.
