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Internet Protection with a Firewall and Router

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Recently, subscriber Peter Killick had a question about protection from downloads: I was under the impression that my combination of a router plus a software firewall completely prevented anything ever being downloaded on my computer over the web without my approval, typically indicated by clicking a button. My router is a Netgear, properly and carefully [...]

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Home Networking Basics

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Why should I network the computers in my home? Convenience, so you can share files and/or printers and/or the Internet connection Backup, so you can copy critical data files (e.g., your Quicken data) to the other machine for backup Computer access, so you can surf the Web while your spouse or kids are doing email [...]

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Thinking About Broadband Internet Access

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

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