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Firewall - any slower?
Name: Alex Date: February 9, 2002 at 03:59:58 Pacific
Comment:
Will using XP's default setting of having a Firewall for my dialup connection slow anything down? Thanks Al
Name: Sanjaya Sugiarto (by Sanjaya) Date: February 9, 2002 at 06:13:09 Pacific
Reply:
Any firewall should slow down ur connection, if u consider tenths of nanoseconds as slow down (u will hardly to know this slowdown), because firewall's duty is to inspect every packets both incoming and outgoing (WinXP built in firewall only inspects incoming packets).
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Response Number 2
Name: Alex Date: February 9, 2002 at 06:17:04 Pacific
Reply:
So if i turn off the Firewall there would be a very *small* speed increase? Al
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Response Number 3
Name: Sanjaya Sugiarto (by Sanjaya) Date: February 9, 2002 at 09:20:23 Pacific
Reply:
Yep, you right.
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Response Number 4
Name: Alex Date: February 10, 2002 at 03:46:58 Pacific
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