Thank you guys!
Thank you Robert for the You Tube Video links.
Could someone provide a quick and easy "what is pfsense?" I understand it's a firewall, but I've never used anything more than "Windows Firewall." What is pfsense doing, why would I want it, etc. I saw a post mentioning blocking ads which is cool, does that require special settings/setup?
It is easier to do this today on a firewall then it is on your computers ad blocking software.Robert has posted links to utilizing PFSense.
Historically since the early days of the ISP Internet most / many folks would connect to the DSL modem / wireless modem / ISP cable modemin the beginning with one computer in the home.There wasn't much happening on the Internet so it was relatively safe. The early antivirus programs were just that and really didn't check the internet at all and mostly just would check files on your computer downloaded via email or whatever.With the proliferation of Wireless and using the ISP internet connection in a shared mode to more than one computer in the house we saw the advent of the combination wireless access point, switch, router, firewall box.
Similarly we saw local computer antivirus changing a bit to watching for malware coming from the internet.
As computers got faster running the AV/Firewall/ antimalware wasn't too difficult.
Personally here went to using windows with the first firewall installed in my home in the 1990's using DSL then to a simple firewall. Thinking it was an old 386 desktop with two network cards running Windows 3.X at the time.
Over the years here at home have used DDWRT / OpenWRT / Tomato OS's on the Linksys WRT and Buffalo routers and concurrently using linux software firewalls.
That and shifting the PC work of the firewall / AV / Malware to the firewall mostly to protect every connected to the internet device in the house.
Shifting the load of protection of the typical PC to the firewall lets me enjoy faster surfing and not worry about constantly updating my computers here with AV / Antimalware et al.
Thank you Robert for the You Tube Video links.
Could someone provide a quick and easy "what is pfsense?" I understand it's a firewall, but I've never used anything more than "Windows Firewall." What is pfsense doing, why would I want it, etc. I saw a post mentioning blocking ads which is cool, does that require special settings/setup?
It is easier to do this today on a firewall then it is on your computers ad blocking software.Robert has posted links to utilizing PFSense.
Historically since the early days of the ISP Internet most / many folks would connect to the DSL modem / wireless modem / ISP cable modemin the beginning with one computer in the home.There wasn't much happening on the Internet so it was relatively safe. The early antivirus programs were just that and really didn't check the internet at all and mostly just would check files on your computer downloaded via email or whatever.With the proliferation of Wireless and using the ISP internet connection in a shared mode to more than one computer in the house we saw the advent of the combination wireless access point, switch, router, firewall box.
Similarly we saw local computer antivirus changing a bit to watching for malware coming from the internet.
As computers got faster running the AV/Firewall/ antimalware wasn't too difficult.
Personally here went to using windows with the first firewall installed in my home in the 1990's using DSL then to a simple firewall. Thinking it was an old 386 desktop with two network cards running Windows 3.X at the time.
Over the years here at home have used DDWRT / OpenWRT / Tomato OS's on the Linksys WRT and Buffalo routers and concurrently using linux software firewalls.
That and shifting the PC work of the firewall / AV / Malware to the firewall mostly to protect every connected to the internet device in the house.
Shifting the load of protection of the typical PC to the firewall lets me enjoy faster surfing and not worry about constantly updating my computers here with AV / Antimalware et al.
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