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Paul K · 21-08-2006, 15:12

Software firewalls rely heavily on your PC resources so can slow your PC down if the firewall gets busy. Also you have to do a lot of tweaking to get a software firewall to work exactly the way you want where as I find a hardware firewall to work brilliantly out of the box and you only have to tweak it for the odd application (normally P2P tools).

21-08-2006, 15:12	#2
Paul K Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Essex innit Age: 51 Services: Sky HD + 16Mb ADSL BT Telephone Posts: 15,735	Re: No hardware firewalled routers? Software firewalls rely heavily on your PC resources so can slow your PC down if the firewall gets busy. Also you have to do a lot of tweaking to get a software firewall to work exactly the way you want where as I find a hardware firewall to work brilliantly out of the box and you only have to tweak it for the odd application (normally P2P tools).