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I doubt either would be very effective as a proper DDoS would be hitting the target with so many unwanted packets they would swamp wanted ones even on a 100Mbps connection.

I still maintain that a home connection is very unlikely target. A botnet is a very valuable resource and wouldn't be wasted on such a target. A script kiddy fails on the first D of DDoS but could conceivably cause some inconvenience if they had enough bandwidth at their disposal but once again why would they bother?

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Indeed. A ping flood is very amateur these days.

The vulnerable hop on a home connection is the slow WAN link between your modem and the ISP's core and your home router (Superhub or otherwise) will have absolutely no control over the data coming down that link and therefore afford absolutely no protection against (D)DoS attacks.

The only way to stop a DoS affecting your link is to stop the data going down your link to begin with, which can only happen at the ISP end.

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Is the average user likely to get a DDOS?

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Theoretically, you stop responding to pings over the wan and you enable the 'firewall' on the Shub. In reality these things will not help you one iota and will likely end up restricting you more than they do a potential attacker.

You are unlikely to ever see a real DDoS attack. If you are at risk of such, you need to look in to far more heafty measures than the Shub will ever offer.

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No

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I've DDoS'ed a few hundred average users...

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I think it's a criminal offence these days so best to keep that to yourself IMO.

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Mitigating circumstances ;)

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Blocking pings is pretty unlikely to have any noticeable affect on a ddos attack other than to make it harder for the attacker to determine the affect of his attacks on you.