Re: So what is the best???

From: Chris A. Epler (Chris@Epler.net)
Date: 10/31/02 

From: Chris@Epler.net (Chris A. Epler)
Date: 30 Oct 2002 16:18:24 -0800

"ZZZZZZZ" <WHATEVER@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote in message news:<3dbfb662.0@139.142.84.10>...
> SYGATE,,,,,,,for sure,stay away from >>>>>ZONEALARM.........

Also consider Kerio: http://www.kerio.com/

They're between releases right now, there is a beta up of version 3.

I sorta like Sygate but I can't for the life of me get my outbound
bandwidth working. It seems to chop it off at about 5-30k/sec.
Streaming audio (APE format) to my laptop is horrid, can't keep up.
Odd thing is that if I cause my system with Sygate to transfer data
outbound, the bandwidth opens up a bit... Setting the firewall to
allow all traffic doesn't help, I have to completely unload the Sygate
driver/service... I'm seeing outbound blocked items in the systray
(red up arrow) yet no blocked connections showing up in the
logs...very very odd.

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