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Last week, Network World ran a review of five midrange firewall/router devices (www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 9426). The author, David Strom, made a comment that Gearhead takes issue with: "Linksys . . . [makes] hubs that offer some minimal network protection for a few hundred dollars. But if you want to be serious about keeping the bad guys away . . . you'll probably end up considering one of the more expensive units"
Now, Gearhead recently took a look at the LinkSys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router and begs to differ. In keeping the miscreants out, the LinkSys box does all you need until you need to get very serious and at half the price of the bottom end of...