Re: NIS 2004 or hardware firewall?

I can tell you that if you don't like bloat or resource hogs then you won't
like NIS... it is the Bloat King...

I suspected that was the case: There must have been a reason why Symantec
had to discontinue all support (even bug reporting) while screaming out so
loudly on every web page you see about how award-winning their
self-award-winning support is.

My position however is that I live in an apartment house with about 8-10
WiFi networks and while mine is encrypted, others (apparently with boosters,
extenders, repeaters, amplifiers, external antennas etc) aren't and often
completely overpower mine and my computers sometimes log on to the other
networks (even where I am the ONLY one on Channel 1 and they are on 6 or
11). Theirs can go through numerous walls and floors and span hundreds of
feet whereas mine can hardly manage four feet line-of-sight. Buffalo
Systems says that their second level tech support is working on this but
they haven't actually been able to call me back with any solution (beyond
disable access to all other systems: When mine sometimes stops actually
working at all! Yes, they have replaced the router a few times)
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:34:42 2005