I had a horrible BT HomeHub3 but when I went to BTinfinity they supplied
the HomeHub5 and it's been running hitch-free since January...
cheers
jez
On 4 July 2015 at 10:34, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, I know how that can go, Jez :-)
>
> No, the firewall was already set and I’m happy with it. I should have
> been very surprised to find it not so; the device cost me a pretty penny,
> but I couldn’t stand the unreliability of the BT Homehub any longer.
> Together with the revision of the Mac’s networking protocol and my new
> gateway, I think that I might have a pretty reliable LAN at home.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 4 Jul 2015, at 08:11, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > And once you've set the firewall you can tell us "it used to work
> beautifully"!
> >
> > On 04/07/2015, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Thanks for prompting me to check, David. I have a new gateway, a
> Netgear
> >> D6400 which works beautifully. But I can’t find its firewall
> settings. I
> >> shall need to read the manual . . .
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>> On 4 Jul 15, at 06:02, David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Once IPv6 becomes the mandatory standard, every connection
> theoretically
> >>> gets a unique address block of their own and then all of their devices
> >>> have a globally unique address and are thus visible to the internet.
> >>> NAT/PAT is no longer necessary (or desirable - as it becomes an added
> >>> complication) and without proper firewalling, many users will become
> >>> vulnerable to outside attack.
> >>
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