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by dderkacht

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Hi everyone, I had a quick question. I am going to be networking two pc's for a small business I run. I have installed Nortons latest firewall. After surfing online a bit, I notice that the surfing is slowed down some with the firewall enabled. Is this normal for a firewall? Of course the salesman said the surfing will be faster due to ad blocking features etc. I would think it would be a bit slower because everything is filtered through the firewall, but I could be wrong. I am using Windows XPpro and a 56k dial up connection. Thanks alot!!

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by mrafrohead

I don't think the firewall should be slowing you down. I use NIS 2K3 and I also have a hardware firewall and all of my machines access the net just as fast as before.

How fast is your computer??? Maybe it's being bogged down with too many services which is affecting your internet???

Mrafrohead

by dderkacht

My computer has a 1.50 GHz AMD Athlon XP 1700, 74 gig hard drive, 512 MB Ram. I am only using about 5 gig on my hard drive and most of the time only about 25% of my memory is utilized. I really dont think thats the issue. I wanted to ask another question. When I set up the Norton personal firewall 2003, I didnt run the set up wizard. I just went with the defaults.Later, I had it scan my programs and it came up with 100 eligible for internet access. Being new to this firewall I clicked cancel. Ihave auto program control checked. Should I do that scan? How does Norton know it is safe to allow them internet access? Thanks a million!!

by dderkacht

My computer has a 1.50 MHz AMD Athlon XP 1700.....512 MB RAM.....74 gig hard drive. I am sure it is capable of much more than I have put on it. I am not even using 4 gig of my hard drive. On the firewall I just went with all defaults, is this a goodidea? On some web sites, pages definately load slower than if I turn off the firewall.

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