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Originally Posted by vwman
I had to uninstall my Norton firewall yesturday and noticed imediatley my 600k connection was LIGHTNING fast? have since reinstalled and its just not as good why is this??
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You will probably find that it was blocking ports you need opened. There's always a balance between blocking unsafe traffic and making the connection useable.
Check your logs, see what is being blocked. I find a useful tool to track traffic, is to set up a firewall rule that allows everything through but logs it. Run this rule for a few minutes and try various internet apps, noting the time you started them. Then disable this rule (as it leaves your system totally open!) and check through the logs. See what programs open what ports. Then you can set up rules to open specific ports when needed.
I don't subscribe to the "Norton stuff sucks so dump it" line of thought. I agree that Norton apps are resource hungry, but if you configure the firewall correctly, it should be both reasonable secure and leave the connection functional. It just takes a little time and effort.