Router question?

[H20HYBRID_GT]

I've had some problems with my connection, mainly because of my old router I "think" (it would disconnect a lot for no obvious reason and other stuff), so I finally got a new Router (Asus), it's working fine so far *knock on wood*.

However what bugs me is that the Dos protection is off by default - so my question is, is there any reason to not turn this on?

Btw I know it doesn't protect me from a real dos attack, but I'm a little paranoid about other things that could happen, like idk ip spoofing or other malicious activities like that.

And I can't find anything useful about this, not even on the Asus website - most people just say "it won't protect you from dos" which I know, but there gotta be other reasons to have this turned on as well, right?

So anyone here has this on and how's your experience with it?

I have a fiber connection 100/50, so some "inspecting" shouldn't impact performance much. I guess?

 

[NLxAROSA]

Inspecting won't hog bandwidth but it will add latency. That said, I've never bothered with it because I got my Asus router behind my cable modem (already firewalled).

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

Hmm, yeah true it would probably add latency. I have a firewall in my modem and my router, too, I just thought maybe someone has experience with this "dos protection", since I really can't find much about it, it's probably not very useful or more people would use it, I guess?

 

[NLxAROSA]

Denial of service attacks are usually carried out at targets that provide a service (or there's nothing to deny ). The average person is just not interesting enough to go through all the effort. Could be worthwhile if you're hosting something that brings you money, like a website or shop. But most people host those outside these days anyway (as the average cloud provider has more bandwidth at a cheaper price than you could possibly host and maintain it yourself).

Firewall is essential, but DOS protection is not IMO.

 

[Danoff]

Put DD-WRT on your old router and see if it fixes the problem you were having.

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

Put DD-WRT on your old router and see if it fixes the problem you were having.

Heh, sorry for the late reply, that's a good idea I also already thought of before buying my new router, but I know almost nothing about this stuff, does DD-WRT have any special requirements, or should it work on an older router?

It's a Netgear wnr 2000 v4 (or something like that).

Btw - I turned that dos protection setting on some time ago to test it (note how it doesn't say ddos - I think there's a difference) with the result that it worked for a while, not exactly great, but it worked and then suddenly my speeds were only at half of what they should be - turned it off and it's working fine since then (mostly).

So, uh, whatever "dos protection" does, it doesn't really help you maintaining your speed, lol, so yeah... I see no point, further research also seemed to suggest that this protection doesn't work for P2P connections at all, you would need some sort of vpn solution supposedly.

Anyway, DD-WRT easy to use on an older router?

 

[Danoff]

Heh, sorry for the late reply, that's a good idea I also already thought of before buying my new router, but I know almost nothing about this stuff, does DD-WRT have any special requirements, or should it work on an older router?

It's a Netgear wnr 2000 v4 (or something like that).

Btw - I turned that dos protection setting on some time ago to test it (note how it doesn't say ddos - I think there's a difference) with the result that it worked for a while, not exactly great, but it worked and then suddenly my speeds were only at half of what they should be - turned it off and it's working fine since then (mostly).

So, uh, whatever "dos protection" does, it doesn't really help you maintaining your speed, lol, so yeah... I see no point, further research also seemed to suggest that this protection doesn't work for P2P connections at all, you would need some sort of vpn solution supposedly.

Anyway, DD-WRT easy to use on an older router?

DD-WRT usually has firmware for older routers. They did years ago when I did it to my old router. It's very similar to the linksys interface, I think it's quite easy to use.

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

Ok, thanks I'll give this a try sometimes, having a second working router can't hurt I guess. 👍

 

[Grayfox]

That old router still is usful.

Use it as an WiFi AP and put it on the other side of the house