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Is my airport extreme base station outdated?
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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1006269" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Besides the high cost, another reason CWA said what he did is:</p><p></p><p>The Airport Extreme has a poor Firewall with no SPI (Statefull Packet Inspection). All good firewalls have more than just NAT (Network Address Translation). A plain NAT Firewall is very poor from a security standpoint. When the latest AE came out I was appalled that it did not have an SPI firewall at that high a price point. I can get a router for $50 with a real firewall and not just NAT. </p><p></p><p>If it were not for the above and a few smaller reasons, I would probably own an AE even at it's high cost because I like Apple Products.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall" target="_blank">Stateful firewall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p>The DIR-655 from everything I have heard and read is an Excellent router. Would recommend it without any doubt at all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1006269, member: 8287"] Besides the high cost, another reason CWA said what he did is: The Airport Extreme has a poor Firewall with no SPI (Statefull Packet Inspection). All good firewalls have more than just NAT (Network Address Translation). A plain NAT Firewall is very poor from a security standpoint. When the latest AE came out I was appalled that it did not have an SPI firewall at that high a price point. I can get a router for $50 with a real firewall and not just NAT. If it were not for the above and a few smaller reasons, I would probably own an AE even at it's high cost because I like Apple Products. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateful_firewall]Stateful firewall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] The DIR-655 from everything I have heard and read is an Excellent router. Would recommend it without any doubt at all! [/QUOTE]
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