Can someone advise me. What are some recommended models of hardware firewall? Here are some details.
I'm in the UK and am running WinXP Pro/SP2 on a home-office PC. The PC connects directly to a cable modem (Virgin Media) and then to the Internet. I don't share my connection with anyone else. Printer and scanner are attached direct to the PC via USB.
I use a software firewall by Sygate and am told that I am much better protected by a hardware firewall.
I may (30% to 40% chance) attach a second PC later. later on I might (about 15% to 20% chance) attach visiting laptops via wireless.
Am reasonably technical but not very familiar with data comms and security. I wouldn't want to learn a lot about this just to run the hardware firewall so something fairly straighforward to set up, to use, and to update is good.
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What sort of hardware firewall should I get?
What recommended models? I'm on quite a tight budget and anything over £100 is definitely out! Ideally I would spend a lot less than that.
On the otherhand I don't want something so cheap that which has too few controls and features and can't configured later on if it gets necessary .