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Zone Alarm kills download speed
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:12 pm
by Ouchyfish
Not sure why or how (probably something needs tweaking with the ports) but with ZA, my download speed is 200k/s and after uninstalling it the speed jumps to 700k+/s. Gave the program full permissions but it still affects it somehow.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:15 pm
by Tossica
Software firewalls are crap. Buy a real firewall.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:46 pm
by Gidan
I have to agree here, if a firewall is really important to you, just get a hardware firewall. Hell they cost the same as the software ones but are considerably beter.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:08 pm
by Ouchyfish
Zone Alarm=free..lol
Wasn't critical to me because there isn't really anything on my pc that I'm protecting../shrug Just figured ZA would somehow protect me from viruses sneakin in or somethin etc..fuck i don't know...
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:07 pm
by Tikker
it does
it has to inspect pretty much every packet that hits it tho, and that's why you lose throughput
hardware firewalls are a lot more efficient, until you turn SPI on (unless you've got big hardware)
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:43 pm
by Ouchyfish
Ah damn..I was hoping when I gave certain programs open access it would open the door for them...
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:21 am
by Tikker
all it really does is allow them access to the ports
it still has inspect each packet to make sure that it's also intended for that port, etc etc