> Does any of that make sense? I understand that the local > cable office does have a WAP version as well as a non-WAP > version of the modem.
One other approach when the cable company or other broadband ISP doesn't want to open up its firewall setup is to have a DMZ IP address which is assigned to your router. Set up the router to do its normal IP filtering, NAT and SPI functions, and you're just as safe as if you had the router connected to a "dumb" modem. This assumes of course that you use WPA2 with AES and a relatively long password/pre-shared-key. Most ISPs will detail how to setup a DMZ IP address or range for folks like gamers. Just remember to use the router and not your computer as the interface. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
