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Originally Posted by splinter9x
I used to be on a router and it sucked...
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Because you didn't know how to use it, right? Routers don't cause problems that you cannot resolve, and they have many benefits, even those little 'gateway routers' for broadband use. First and foremost is protection. Unless you have port forwarding enabled, other computers on the internet can't arbitrarily connect to yours. It's a form of hardware firewall, though you could be an idiot and rely instead on a software firewall, like ZoneAlarm, NIS, or (God forbid) the 'personal firewall' in WinXP. The next major benefit is connection sharing, but of course this only matters if you have more than one machine on which you desire internet connectivity. A third benefit off the top of my head would be forming a LAN, and sharing resources such as disk space or printers. When I'm at my girlfriend's place, I can be sitting on the couch with my laptop, and print stuff on her printer across the room. I only need to get up to make sure there's paper in the printer, and pick up the job when it's done.
Now, maybe you can tell us why routers suck, and hopefully it's a better answer than "I'm clueless as to how to configure it", because that's like saying a bicycle sucks because you don't know how to ride one.