Home network advice

[mejobloggs]

I had a whole lot of rambling here but now I've shortened it...

I'm looking to retire my Snapgear Lite+. I bought it to 8 years ago to use as a hardware firewall to secure a home business. I was told it was the latest/greatest in security back then, but it's going wonky

Would a standard router firewall be good enough to secure a home business? Or do I need to find a specific 'firewall' product.

I was thinking wrt54gl + Tomato as I can get one for very cheap

I don't use any features such as VPN, I just want good security

Security against alien attacks. I want it
Security against nuclear strikes. I want it

 

[thiggins]

See Routers vs. Firewalls.

Any consumer router should be fine. Your larger risk will be due to browsing to infected sites, phishing attacks, email worms, that a router won't detect unless it is doing deep packet inspection. If you want that, prepare to spend big $.

 

[mejobloggs]

So DPI is a bit like antivirus on the router?

Even with that feature in the router, I would still use an antivirus on my pc's, so I don't think DPI is needed for me

Thanks thiggins

 

[thiggins]

SPI is not antivirus. The Wikipedia article provides a decent explanation.

At any rate, SPI doesn't really add much value to consumer routers. It's mostly for marketing reasons because it sounds cool.

 

[mejobloggs]

Nah I was talking about Deep Packet Inspection (which from the description sounds like an antivirus program covers the same areas) and just observing that it's not really worth the money for it