Best cable modem setup?

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Best cable modem setup? Dennis K. 01-11-2007
Posted by Dennis K. on January 23, 2007, 3:59 pm
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>Depending on how you use your computer, you may not want any firewall
>running at all. If I remember correctly, you needed a public IP address so
>you could do some networking homework from a remote location. The presence
>of a firewall of any kind can make troubleshooting any problems you run
>into more difficult.

You must be thinking of someone else. I don't need a public IP address.
You may have been thinking of my question about using a hub *instead* of
a NAT router.

>Of course if you're limiting your security to what's provided by the
>nature of NAT and the SPI in the router, you probably shouldn't keep any
>valuable data (like passwords to your bank accounts) on that computer,
>either.

I keep my passwords in encrypted form on the PC.

***

Thanks for your comments...

--

Dennis K.

Posted by Dennis K. on January 24, 2007, 12:02 pm
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wrote:

>On 11 Jan 2007 21:17:43 -0600, comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:
>
>>Hands down agreed. Replace the hub with a linksys BEFSR41 or WRT54G
>>(wireless) or equivalent. Both are reasonably priced and relatively
>>ubiquitous.
>
>OK. The WRT54G came today. And I have I have asked TW to come out and
>install roadrunner on Wednesday.

RoadRunner is installed and working. After the installer left I plugged
in the router and things pretty much worked out-of-the-box.

I went in to the router's setup program and changed the admin password
and disabled wireless network mode (since I don't have any wireless
devices at the moment). Is there anything else that I should do
security-wise in the router's setup?

Thanks for your advice,

--

Dennis K.

Posted by Todd H. on January 24, 2007, 12:04 pm
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> wrote:
>
> >On 11 Jan 2007 21:17:43 -0600, comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:
> >
> >>Hands down agreed. Replace the hub with a linksys BEFSR41 or WRT54G
> >>(wireless) or equivalent. Both are reasonably priced and relatively
> >>ubiquitous.
> >
> >OK. The WRT54G came today. And I have I have asked TW to come out and
> >install roadrunner on Wednesday.
>
> RoadRunner is installed and working. After the installer left I plugged
> in the router and things pretty much worked out-of-the-box.
>
> I went in to the router's setup program and changed the admin password
> and disabled wireless network mode (since I don't have any wireless
> devices at the moment). Is there anything else that I should do
> security-wise in the router's setup?

Check for updated firmware on the company's site, but other than that
those are typically the only 2 things to get you in a reasonbly secure
stance.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Posted by Dennis K. on January 12, 2007, 10:13 am
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wrote:

>Go out, and get a router. You can replace the hub with the router, or just
>connect the hub to the router.

Would I use a regular cable to connect the hub to the router? Or a
crossover cable?

--

Dennis K.

Posted by Todd H. on January 12, 2007, 11:39 am
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> wrote:
>
> >Go out, and get a router. You can replace the hub with the router, or just
> >connect the hub to the router.
>
> Would I use a regular cable to connect the hub to the router? Or a
> crossover cable?

Regular cable should work fine in the uplink port of the hub (or in a
port switched for uplink), otherwise an xover in a regular port will
do ya for interconnecting to the switch.


--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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