Hello folks: I know this has been a topic before as I've read some of the threads - and became more confused. I've had a wired firewall in an older 3Com router for several years and have not had any problems until today. For some reason, I could not get an internet connection. After long discussion and trying different things, it was clear that the modem was fine and the router might be the problem. I removed the router and hooked up the modem directly to the PC via the Ethernet connection. It took windows 7 a minute or so to finally find the connection, but it finally did. After all that, my questions is this: With the smart firewall and other protections in NIS 2011, do I need the hardware firewall?
Thanks for the advice.
BC