DeeBeeS
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- 6 Jan 2004
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Today my house was struck by lightning which knocked out all the electrics, I was using my computer at the time which immediately closed and there was a loud bang from my Linkys modem router so when eventually the electrics came back thank goodness my computer still was OK but the modem has had it.
In any event I have ordered a new one which is a Netgear DG834 modem router with firewall which after various searches on Google has good reports.
My question is that am I able to run my software firewall as well as the one on the router or should I just use the hardware one.
Having said this was a quick question I have just thought of something else, I did have a Belkin surge protector whichI think saved the computer however it used to start when I hit the space bar, It does'nt do this anymore I have checked the bios and it is marked to start up when the space bar is hit. Any ideas please on the cause, thanks a lot in anticipation for any advice given.
David
In any event I have ordered a new one which is a Netgear DG834 modem router with firewall which after various searches on Google has good reports.
My question is that am I able to run my software firewall as well as the one on the router or should I just use the hardware one.
Having said this was a quick question I have just thought of something else, I did have a Belkin surge protector whichI think saved the computer however it used to start when I hit the space bar, It does'nt do this anymore I have checked the bios and it is marked to start up when the space bar is hit. Any ideas please on the cause, thanks a lot in anticipation for any advice given.
David