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<font color="#ff00cc">Well Im in through Verizon (I think) at work with no problems, and from at home I have no problems through Comcast so wooHoooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</font>

another AOhmygodi'mgonnakillmyselfifitdoesn'tloadthepageso onL (ha i DO know an original name for AOL) user here. its working faster for me, which is a nice change when compaired to every other page on the interenet.

Edit: i missed a word so now, from missing just ONE word i'm writing an entire sentance, maybe even a paragraph about it. ridiculous huh?

[ 12-16-2002, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Bruce The Aussie ]

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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
<font color=skyblue>I have Roadrunner as my ISP. I am currently working the net at 836Kbps, but am told that with a router, I could do 1.5Mbps. Concerning the Linksys router you bought...I have a question regarding it. I was going to get that same router, the same one that many of my friends have...but I was told by a tech guy that he stopped selling Linksys routers as soon as the Tech guys at Roadrunner reported that a very obvious hole could be found in their firewall. What do you think?</font>

Any firewall - any security device, ever - has security holes. The fact that this hole was found by techs rather than hackers means its been plugged, probably with no actual succesful hacks. I would be more worried by a device thats never had a security hole reported, because its far more likely they've never been found than that they dont exist. I did a brief search and found reports of a hole found in linksys, but I have no idea if its the one you refer to. Firmware upgrades tend to close known holes rapidly.

Theres a site :

http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1ck2l2

Hit the "shields up" link.That claims to analyse your computer for vulnerabilities, it does report my currently wide open computer as fairly secure, but it seems to be accurate - win98 dosent have some of the features it thinks are secure, so it makes sense it cant penetrate them.

ISDN at work...and loading seems a bit faster now, but maybe it's just because I'm so darned happy IW is back up! :D

On Comcast Cable, all is looking good to me! [img]smile.gif[/img]