[FAQ] LinkSys Fixes (Another Solution for 10 Minute Disconnects)

[rakeesh]

Originally Posted by zumwalt

Well, if you have a firewall (aka windows built in one for XP), just turn it on, and open the router up from ports 1024 on up.

Make sure your router has a very good password set on it.

This is astonishingly unsafe. I hope you were being sarcastic.

You might as well throw away the router and whatever host-based filtering you use if you do this. The password on the router won't mean a thing, because you've just let all and sundry past it.