A Comparison of 802.11g Firewalls?

peoria kid asks: "Does anybody know how to compare the firewall effectiveness between the different providers of 802.11g networking solutions? I am considering purchasing a base station for my parents and I do not know if the Apple Airport base station or others such as Lynksys, or Lucent have better encryption and firewall protection."

Comments

Wire it, you lazy bum

[Creepy Crawler]

If the people you're buying wireless stuff for doesnt know what 'security' is, wire it. It prevents leechers, black-hats, spammers and other undesirables.

And .11g is ONLY 55Mbit. Regular ethernet gear is 100Mbit. What exactly is the reason you need wireless?

Re:Wire it, you lazy bum

[hubie]

This is by far the best point to getting a wireless router. It has 10/100 ports on it to hook up your wired computers, and it allows you to hook up your laptop or other computer you want mobile. It is very darn convenient.

By the way, if the poster's parents are not moving very large files around and they basically use the computer to surf the web and read email (i.e., they don't need 100 Mbps), then a wireless connection certainly is something to consider.

Besides, if you are connected via something like residential dsl which can't even do 10Mbps, why insist on 100Mbps everywhere in the house? Having that wire between the computer and the printer is great when you want to print very large files, but if that is the only real need for that kind of bandwidth then it may be worth the wireless instead of running wires (running them properly that is, such as through walls and not just strung in the open along the baseboard).