Free Firewall

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Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does it's job
fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when paying online gaming
as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and this leaves my pc open to
attacks.

What other free firewall is good but doesn't cause this problem?

TIA
 
Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does it's job
fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when paying online gaming
as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and this leaves my pc open to
attacks.

What other free firewall is good but doesn't cause this problem?
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Use the one built into XP.


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Jimbob said:
Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does
it's job fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when
paying online gaming as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and
this leaves my pc open to attacks.

What other free firewall is good but doesn't cause this problem?

TIA
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Kerio is fairly decent. Has a (IMO) steep learning curve though. There's
also Tiny Personal Firewall, but I have no experience with it. HTH
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Jimbob said:
Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does it's job
fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when paying online gaming
as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and this leaves my pc open to
attacks.

What other free firewall is good but doesn't cause this problem?

TIA
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have you tried Sygate?

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Jimbob said:
Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does it's job
fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when paying online gaming
as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and this leaves my pc open to
attacks.

What other free firewall is good but doesn't cause this problem?

TIA
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if you have an old computer laying around you could use linux and make a
dedicated firewall.
 
Jimbob said:
Hi

I've been using Zonelabs free firewall for some time now, it does it's job
fine, but the only problem is i have to disable it when paying online gaming
as it causes lag spikes every minute or so, and this leaves my pc open to
attacks.
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Hmmm, I've been using ZA for several years now, and I get no "once a minute"
lag spikes while gaming. Have you tried turning off the log and update
functions of ZA?

Jon
 
Jon Danniken said:
Hmmm, I've been using ZA for several years now, and I get no "once
a minute" lag spikes while gaming.
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Me either, and I've played for tens of hours at a time.
Have you tried turning off the log and update
functions of ZA?
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May as well.
 
sygate personal works a charm, however I still shut down any firewall
while gaming...I find that routing UDP pacs is time consuming
 
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