I have a Hotbrick hardware firewall for the trading machine... I whitelist it, only a few url's are open to the computer and all others are blocked.. I have the home page on the browser set to something that should be blocked. This morning I open the browser to manage the whitelist and discover that I can access the whole, wide www world! I checked the Hotbrick, it should be whitelisting, I try blacklisting and it's still open to the whole wide www world... I had to do the physical reset with the reset button on the Hotbrick and reenter the whitelist to get it working again... whether it got hacked or a power glitch just messed it up, I don't know.. but I don't like it..... the other choices are SonicWall and Cisco I guess... I hate Cisco, if you aren't a PhD in computer science you can't even navigate their website let alone set up the firewall.. maybe Sonic is better?
This thread is old I see, but I just picked up Netgear's SRX5308 and I gotta say - it is the bomb! Tons of Firewall features and easy to configure/use Load balancing Failover protection Quad WAN - 924 Mbps WAN-LAN throughput Gigabit LAN I am only running 2 of the 4 WAN ports. I picked up 2 Motorola SB6120 modems and have 1 to Comcast and 1 to Wide Open West. More bandwidth than I need but the failover will be nice. The Router is easy to configure, has a very nice feature set, low latency and incredible throughput! Here is a review: NETGEAR ProSafe SRX5308 Gigabit Quad WAN SSL VPN Firewall
XiNCOM Twin WAN XC-DPG502 Router found xincom reference somewhere on ET, main points were the dual connection and low price reviewed: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1641359,00.asp http://www.xincom.com/products/502/overview.php
The Xincom DPG502 and HotBrick... Are EXACTLY the same router made in the same factory... But marketed by 2 different companies. I used the HotBrick for 2 years (it was tricky, but OK)... But now I use the PepLink Balance 30.. It's BY FAR the best router I've ever owned. http://www.peplink.com/balance/
It's ** much better designed ** than the Hotbrick... I simply do not have to worry about it... Every issue has been easily resolved... And when a WAN goes down... I don't even notice. In terms of security... I don't do much at the router level... But I'm sure you can download the documentation.
thanks DeeDeeTwo for your PepLink Balance recommendation you said: "And when a WAN goes down... I don't even notice." - if you lose an ISP feed, doesn't it cause your charting/order entry software to re-start ?
I trade spread over 3 PCs... On a Windows XP network... So I'm running 2 TWS platforms with API... Quote data from Thomson Reuters... And about 50,000 lines of proprietary Algo Systems... And sending 2,000 order/day = 5/minute... Over 2 broadband (one cable, one DSL) thru Peplink 30... And when one of the broadband goes down for a few minutes... The Peplink fails over... And I do not even notice. During the Financial Crisis... My system up time >>> IB system up time. Peplink rocks... They are in it for the long haul... And make most of their revenue from enterprise > $1,000 routers... So all that quality trickles down to the $300 retail multi-WAN.