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To: Paul Shread who wrote (27029)	1/4/2002 2:25:06 PM
From: Carolyn	Respond to of 52237

It beats an extra $10 a month for another IP address! Plus there is the built-in security: your computer(s) are hidden behind the router's IP address.

To: Paul Shread who wrote (27029)	1/4/2002 6:17:13 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 52237

As Carolyn says, its probably the best option. If you want to use a PC for connection sharing, the PC will require 2 network cards and you'd have to deal with MS Connection sharing and or a third party NAT gateway. Having everything in a private subnet (typically a net starting with 192... or 10... ip address or other such predefined nets) hidden behind the cheap router basically means that hackers can not, period, get to your machines on your local LAN. The linksys will look after all this for you. Not used one but hear they are simple to work with. Whereas a computer acting as a gateway sits there 24 hours a day as a big target. I have a UNIX box and a Windows NT box in two different locations sitting on the internet live all day long and I can tell you they get hit by script kiddies (junior hackers running 'off the shelf' hack tools) all day long. A log kept by my mother in law's machine (on a cable subscriber service) is in a similar situation (protected her with software - not a perfect solution but better than nothing). Its a weird world out there...