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Originally Posted by Paul M
Firewalls do not generally start to do strange things when they have been running fine for ages.
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Generally, no. But it can, and
does happen. I lost count of the number of customers I spoke to in Broadband Support with slow/intermittent/broken connections who refused to disable their firewall because "it has been running fine for ages and I've made no changes to it", who found their connection worked perfectly when they actually turn it off.
EDIT: I'm not saying that firewalls are necessarily the cause of this problem though - just that refusing to turn off the firewall because "it's always worked fine in the past" is not very helpful. Things go wrong, be they firewalls, whole computers, or cars.