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electricfeel said:

hi whoever you are.

Hi electricfeel.
Welcome to our forum.

zzz2496 said:

Did you put your computer in the DMZ zone? I'm curious as this experience can benefit us all, to protect self from being hacked...

I personally NEVER USE DMZ, and every incoming/outgoing traffic is always logged by my router, and it has it's own traffic log/bandwidth usage log, so whenever I feel the network being slow or if I smell something fishy, I can always review the logs/bandwidth monitor in my router.

zzz2496

OK, time to show my ignorance, what is DMZ? I know it is different from my military definition, demilitarized zone.

CarlTR6 said:

zzz2496 said:

Did you put your computer in the DMZ zone? I'm curious as this experience can benefit us all, to protect self from being hacked...

I personally NEVER USE DMZ, and every incoming/outgoing traffic is always logged by my router, and it has it's own traffic log/bandwidth usage log, so whenever I feel the network being slow or if I smell something fishy, I can always review the logs/bandwidth monitor in my router.

zzz2496

OK, time to show my ignorance, what is DMZ? I know it is different from my military definition, demilitarized zone.

Yup, that's it... Basically it's a rule in the router that will direct EVERY traffic that is destined to the router directly to the DMZ-ed host. It's the easiest way to be "directly connected to the Internet" through a router. This way you won't have any problem with closed ports (as long it's open in your Windows firewall), you don't need to make a forwarding rule. It's the easy way to get screwed, basically...

zzz2496

Thank you, Sir. I understand. I appreciate the answer.

You're welcome :)

It's the easy way to get screwed, basically...

Truer words have never been spoken

iseeuu said:

CarlTR6 said:

Thank you, Sir. I understand. I appreciate the answer.

Hello Carl;

Hey, I ran across this in a router manual recently, and it seemed to explain the DMZ in a way that even I could understand.



Cheers!
Robert

Ah, thank you, Robert; now I fully understand. "Preciate it.