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Broadband Routers - Effective Security for Your Computer

Viruses, Trojan Horses, and Spyware are running rampant over the Internet. You should certainly take advantage of every option available to you to enhance your internet security. Although there are many great pieces of software that can help, there is one often overlooked piece of hardware that is available as well. A wired or wireless router can provide another layer of protection to your internet security.

But now, having said that, you have to ask yourself a question: "Well, I only have one computer. What good can a wired or wireless router really do me? I have my cable modem or my DSL modem that provides my internet service, because I am in the majority of people in the world that are now using broadband Internet connection. Why in the world, if I only have one computer, would I need to have a router? I am not trying to share my connection between two, three, four, five computers. I only have one. I can connect directly to my modem and I'm fine."

Well, a router will offer you a couple of important perks.

Most people know that the first benefit of having a wired or wireless router is the ability to add one or more computers to your home network. Now granted, you may only have one computer now, but in the future you may add more computers, especially if you are in a family, as your kids get older perhaps they will have a desktop of their own in their room or in another room in the house. With a router already in place you have everything necessary to hook that computer right into the Internet without doing any extra work on your part. The workload will even lessen even more if you purchase a wireless router, because then you have one computer that is hardwired to the router, and you don't even have to do that once you get the router set up. And then you can add multiple computers on the wireless network without having to run any other cables at all, totally hassle free.

The second perk has to do with enhanced security. A hardware firewall is available in many wired and wireless routers on the market today. You may have heard the term before, a firewall. Those of you who work for companies have probably dealt with having a firewall that your computers have to go through when you send information out, or when information is coming in. And a firewall is simply a system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network. And wouldn't you like for your home network to be private, the computer that you use every day to do your banking online, or purchase things online with your credit card. Wouldn't you like for that network to be private, and nobody from the outside could get into it?

A firewall is designed to keep people on the outside from coming in on your network, and either, number one, getting information from your computers. Or number two, doing some damage to your computers, whether it be through a virus, some form of spyware, or some other form of adware or malware that they come in and try to get to your computer, and either again, get your information or turn your computer into a bot that can attack other computers that are under the control of the person that infected your computer.

Even if you only have one computer at home, investing in a wired or wireless router is a wise decision and can add another layer of security to your home network. A router offers both added convenience and security to your home network.

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Michael Paul has been selling computers and consumer electronics for over 10 years. His knowledge allows him to make computers easy for anyone to understand and he uses the TechCast Weekly Internet Radio Show to dish out that knowledge. With the TechCast, you'll get a dose of computer knowledge every Tuesday. Check out Michael's latest book, Computer Crash!, and see if you will be prepared when your computer crashes.

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