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I spent a day hardening (improving) the settings on her new Dell. I used to have to reset the Comcast modem alone quite regularly.
Only negative: I wish the firewall password characteristics were stronger. One positive surprise when you open the box: the router is only about the size of two packs of cigarettes.
About to buy a second for my neighbor's Christmas gift. I have only had to re-boot the modem and router a couple of times in the last year (and its easy: power off the modem, then the router; wait a minute; power up modem and let initialize, then power up the router).
Advise: use the firewall and password protect it. I am an IT security geek.
My reaction to the set up instructions were, "That's all.".
You can always use your security program (Norton, McAfee, BIT Defender etc). I have not tried any of the firewall and advance configurations, but for simple wired connections for several computers, it works great. for firewall protection. The basic 1, 2, 3 setup is very easy to do. At first, my connection failed and the CD prompted me to start over, which I did ,but I also restarted the computer and everything setup fine after the restart.The price was right but I have not tried tech support yet.
I would reccommend this router to anyone. Great router did all I wanted and more. Works well with minimal set up.
Could not be happier with the results either: unlike Linksys I have not had to manually setup port forwarding to get things like file sharing to work. Love it. Replaced a Linksys router that was sporadically dropping connection to my cable modem, and the setup was quick and completely painless.
It will even e-mail security reports to you, if you want it to. This router is a champ. I went with this router because I didn't really need wireless and did not want the extra security hassles that can bring. It is amazing to see how many computers are trying to break in every minute. I have not had one second of problems with it since I hooked it up. It does exactly what I want it to do--serve as a router/firewall between my computers and the cable modem.
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