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To: Charlie who wrote (36377)	9/3/2003 12:17:26 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 110653

Charlie, I have a year-old Linksys BEFW11S4 V2.0. Since you're interested in adding a laptop, you could use a router like that. There must be new models. I'd check the Linksys site [now part of Cisco]. I have no experience with other routers. This one was fairly easy to set up, without calling for help. What impresses me is that my Zone Alarm shows only 40 intrusion attempts since I installed the latest version in July. Must be the router waving them off. Others without a router get thousands. Once you get a laptop networked you can do backups to the other computer, too. I read Norton Ghost can make drive images across a network, but have not tried it. Gottfried

To: Charlie who wrote (36377)	9/3/2003 12:39:08 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Charlie A router with NAT is really good protection from hackers as it makes your computer invisible to the net. They only see the router. Be advised that wireless routers are not that hard to hack by someone near your location with a wireless laptop or other wireless device. I read a good account recently where a tech consultant went to a person's house to find out why they were having problems and discovered their wireless laptop was connected to the neighbor's network. He got rid of that connection only to discover that his client's box then connected to a different neighbor's wireless LAN! You can fix some of this stuff and getting hacked by a neighbor or a driveby is less likely to be a malicious hack situation, but you got to take care if you go wireless.